Application Visibility and Control

If you can’t see it, you can’t secure it!

Your current security infrastructure could be inadequate, and is therefore being compromised

The evolution of the application landscape has made it more difficult for firewalls to protect the corporate network. Time has moved on and left traditional IPS solutions way behind the pace being set by Application development.

The statistics speak for themselves:

• Hidden application traffic; more than 40% of the applications can use SSL or hop ports; consuming roughly 36% of your overall bandwidth observed.
• Data loss; over 90% of company networks experience data leakage and serious non–compliance issues through web2web file sharing methods.
• History is repeating itself; progression from FTP, to P2P, to browser–based file sharing all show strikingly similar risk and reward characteristics. These applications, found with 92%, 82% and 91% frequency respectively, each provide business value, but represent security and business risks that may include exploits, malware vectors and data loss (intentional or otherwise).

Click here to read the “An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise” report in more detail.

An increasing number of consumer and business applications are using sophisticated security evasion techniques such as dynamic or random port numbers, and application emulation/tunnelling. The result is an enterprise network that is rife with unapproved and uncontrollable applications – unseen by traditional firewalls – which brings unwanted exposure to a wide range of security and compliance related risks.

To address the loss of application visibility and control, IT organisations need a set of tools that address the following requirements;

• Enable user–based application visibility and control for all applications, across all ports
• Stops malware and application vulnerability exploits in real–time
• Simplifies security administration through unified policy controls
• Facilities enterprise–wide web surfing policies

Palo Alto Networks has been validated by Gartner as the leading visionary in ‘next generation firewalls’. Palo Alto Networks enables you to deploy IPS and firewall as stand alone or tandem; increasing performance and manageability while reducing cost.

Palo Alto Networks gives you network security by allowing you to see and control applications, users and content – not just ports IP addresses and packets – and all at speeds of up to 10Gbps, without performance degradation.

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