The Palo Alto Networks PA-500 is targeted at high speed Internet gateway deployments for enterprise branch offices and medium size businesses. The PA-500 manages network traffic flows using dedicated computing resources for networking, security, threat prevention and management.

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The Palo Alto firewall PA-500 manages network traffic flows with high performance processing and dedicated memory for networking, security, threat prevention, URL filtering and management. Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewall's high speed backplane smoothes the pathway between processors and the separation of data and control plane ensures that management access is always available, irrespective of the traffic load.

Next-generation firewall unique identification technologies

Application Identification (App-ID)

App-ID is a patent-pending traffic classification technology that identifies more than 950 applications, irrespective of port, protocol, SSL encryption or evasive characteristic.

• Facilitate more complete understanding of the business value and associated risk of the applications traversing the network.
• Enable creation and enforcement of appropriate application usage policies.
• Bring application visibility and control back to the firewall where it belongs.

App ID Tech Brief

User Identification (User-ID)

User-ID enables policy control over applications and content based on the employee and group identity through seamless integration with enterprise directory services including Active Directory, LDAP and eDirectory.

• Perform analysis on application, threat and web surfing activity based on individual users and groups of users, as opposed to just IP addresses.
• Identify Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services users and apply policy controls over their respective application usage.
• Build policies to positively enable application usage for specific groups such as marketing, IT, and sales.

User ID Tech Brief

Content Identification (Content-ID)

• Block viruses, spyware, and application vulnerability exploits in a single pass.
• Limit unauthorized transfer of files and sensitive data such as CC# or SSN.
• Implement policy control over non-work related web surfing.
• Single pass software architecture maximizes performance by scanning traffic only once, regardless of which Content-ID features are enabled.

Content ID Tech Brief

PA-500 Datasheet

Palo Alto Networks range

PA-2020 Series FW Throughput 500Mbps, IPS Throughput 200Mbps

PA-2060 Series FW Throughput 1Gbps, IPS Throughput 500Mbps

PA-4020 Series FW Throughput 2Gbps, IPS Throughput 2Gbps

PA-4050 Series FW Throughput 10Gbps, IPS Throughput 5Gbps

PA-4060 Series FW Throughput 10Gbps, IPS Throughput 5Gbps

Compliance Standards

Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data

A-10-6 Network security management

GCSX No 8 Firewalls

GCSX No 19 Content Analysis

Data Sheets & White Papers

Protecting Sharepoint

IPS Threat Block Rate-NSS Labs

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Support Options

Palo Alto Support Program

Palo Alto Firewalls Training

The following Partner Authorised Training Center Classes will take students through the process of installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting.

Training Schedule

Courses are running in May, June and July 2012

FW Installation Configuration and Management

FW Advanced Troubleshooting

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