Palo Alto Networks PA-220 brings ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall capabilities to distributed enterprise branch offices, retail locations, and midsize businesses.
The world’s first ML-Powered NGFW enables you to prevent unknown threats, see and secure everything— including IoT—and reduce errors with automatic policy recommendations.
Key Security and Connectivity Features
ML-Powered Next Generation Firewall
- Embeds machine learning (ML) in the core of the firewall to provide inline signatureless attack prevention for filebased attacks while identifying and immediately stopping never-before-seen phishing attempts.
- Leverages cloud-based ML processes to push zero-delay signatures and instructions back to the NGFW.
- Uses behavioral analysis to detect internet of things (IoT) devices and make policy recommendations; clouddelivered and natively integrated service on the NGFW.
- Automates policy recommendations that save time and reduce the chance of human error.
Identifies and categorizes all applications, on all ports, all the time, with full Layer 7 inspection
- Identifies the applications traversing your network irrespective of port, protocol, evasive techniques, or encryption (TLS/SSL).
- Uses the application, not the port, as the basis for all your safe enablement policy decisions: allow, deny, schedule, inspect, and apply traffic-shaping.
- Offers the ability to create custom App-IDs for proprietary applications or request App-ID development for new applications from Palo Alto Networks.
- Identifies all payload data within the application, such as files and data patterns, to block malicious files and thwart data exfiltration attempts.
- Creates standard and customized application usage reports, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) reports that provide insight into all SaaS traffic—sanctioned and unsanctioned—on your network.
- Enables safe migration of legacy Layer 4 rule sets to App-ID-based rules with built-in Policy Optimizer, giving you a rule set that is more secure and easier to manage.
Enforces security for users at any location, on any device, while adapting policy in response to user activity
- Enables visibility, security policies, reporting, and forensics based on users and groups—not just IP addresses.
- Easily integrates with a wide range of repositories to leverage user information: wireless LAN controllers, VPNs, directory servers, SIEMs, proxies, and more.
- Allows you to define Dynamic User Groups (DUGs) on the firewall to take time-bound security actions without waiting for changes to be applied to user directories.
- Applies consistent policies irrespective of users’ locations (office, home, travel, etc.) and devices (iOS and Android® mobile devices, macOS®, Windows®, Linux desktops, laptops; Citrix and Microsoft VDI and Terminal Servers).
- Prevents corporate credentials from leaking to third-party websites, and prevents reuse of stolen credentials by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) at the network layer for any application, without any application changes.
- Provides dynamic security actions based on user behavior to restrict suspicious or malicious users.
Prevents malicious activity concealed in encrypted traffic
- Inspects and applies policy to TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic, both inbound and outbound, including for traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2.
- Offers rich visibility into TLS traffic, such as amount of encrypted traffic, TLS/SSL versions, cipher suites, and more, without decrypting.
- Enables control over use of legacy TLS protocols, insecure ciphers, and incorrectly configured certs to mitigate risks.
- Facilitates easy deployment of decryption and lets you use built-in logs to troubleshoot issues, such as applications with pinned certs.
- Lets you enable or disable decryption flexibly based on URL category and source and destination zone, address, user, user group, device, and port, for privacy and regulatory compliance purposes.
- Allows you to create a copy of decrypted traffic from the firewall (i.e., decryption mirroring) and send it to traffic collection tools for forensics, historical purposes, or data loss prevention (DLP).
Extends native protection across all attack vectors with cloud-delivered security subscriptions
- Threat Prevention—inspects all traffic to automatically block known vulnerabilities, malware, vulnerability exploits, spyware, command and control (C2), and custom intrusion prevention system (IPS) signatures.
- WildFire® malware prevention—unifies inline machine learning protection with robust cloud-based analysis to instantly prevent new threats in real time as well as discover and remediate evasive threats faster than ever.
- URL Filtering—prevents access to malicious sites and protects users against web-based threats, including credential phishing attacks.
- DNS Security—detects and blocks known and unknown threats over DNS (including data exfiltration via DNS tunneling), prevents attackers from bypassing security measures, and eliminates the need for independent tools or changes to DNS routing.
- IoT Security—discovers all unmanaged devices in your network quickly and accurately with ML, without the need to deploy additional sensors. Identifies risks and vulnerabilities, prevents known and unknown threats, provides risk-based policy recommendations, and automates enforcement.
Delivers a unique approach to packet processing with Single-Pass Architecture
- Performs networking, policy lookup, application and decoding, and signature matching—for any and all threats and content—in a single pass. This significantly reduces the amount of processing overhead required to perform multiple functions in one security device.
- Enables consistent and predictable performance when security subscriptions are enabled.
- Avoids introducing latency by scanning traffic for all signatures in a single pass, using stream-based, uniform signature matching.
Enables SD-WAN functionality
- Allows you to easily adopt SD-WAN by simply enabling it on your existing firewalls.
- Enables you to safely implement SD-WAN, which is natively integrated with our industry-leading security.
- Delivers an exceptional end user experience by minimizing latency, jitter, and packet loss.
