Palo Alto Networks PA-415 Next Generation Firewalls

The Palo Alto Networks PA-400 Series, comprising the PA-460,  PA-450, PA-440, and PA-410, brings ML-Powered NGFW capabilities to  distributed enterprise branch  offices, retail locations, and midsize businesses. The world’s first ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) enables you to prevent unknown threats, see and secure everything— including the Internet of Things (IoT)—and reduce errors with automatic policy recommendations.

Highlights 

• World’s first ML-Powered NGFW 
• Ten-time Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls 
• Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020 
• Highest Security Effectiveness score in the 2019 NSS Labs NGFW Test Report, with 100% of evasions blocked 
• Spans a range of performance needs for the distributed enterprise with a broad lineup 
• Offers security in a desktop form factor 
• Extends visibility and security to all devices, including unmanaged IoT devices, without the need to deploy additional sensors 
• Supports high availability with active/active and active/passive modes 
• Delivers predictable performance with security services 
• Features a silent, fanless design with an optional redundant power supply for branch and home offices 
• Simplifies deployment of large numbers of firewalls with optional Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) 
• Supports centralized administration with Panorama™ network security management

The controlling element of the PA-400 Series is PAN-OS, the same software that runs all Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. PAN-OS® natively classifies all traffic, inclusive of applications, threats, and content, and then ties that traffic to the user regardless of location or device type. The application, content, and user—in other words, the elements that run your business—then serve as the basis of your security policies, resulting in improved security posture and reduced  incident response times. 

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 file-based 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 IoT devices and make policy recommendations as part of a cloud-delivered 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); in addition, automatically discovers and controls new applications to keep pace with the SaaS explosion with a SaaS Security subscription. 
• 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-ID™ tags for proprietary applications or request App-ID development for new applications from Palo Alto Networks. 
• Identifies all payload data within an application (e.g., files and data patterns) to block malicious f iles and thwart exfiltration attempts. 
• Creates standard and customized application usage  reports, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) reports that  provide insight into all sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS traffic 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. 
• Check out the App-ID Tech Brief for more information.

PA-400 Series Performance and Capacities

Firewall throughput (HTTP/appmix)

• 1.5 Gbps

Threat Prevention throughput (HTTP/appmix)

• 0.8 Gbps

IPsec VPN throughput

• 0.65 Gbps

Max sessions

• 64,000

New sessions per second

• 11,000

Networking Features

Interface Modes

• L2, L3, tap, virtual wire (transparent mode)

Routing

• OSPFv2/v3 with graceful restart, BGP with graceful restart, RIP, static routing
• Policy-based forwarding
• Point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)
• Multicast: PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, IGMP v1, v2, and v3

SD-WAN

• Path quality measurement (jitter, packet loss, latency)
• Initial path selection (PBF)
• Dynamic path change

IPv6

• L2, L3, tap, virtual wire (transparent mode)
• Features: App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, WildFire, and SSL Decryption
• SLAAC

IPsec VPN

• Key exchange: manual key, IKEv1 and IKEv2 (pre-shared key, certificate-based authentication)
• Encryption: 3DES, AES (128-bit, 192-bit, 256-bit)
• Authentication: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512

VLANs

• 802.1Q VLAN tags per device/per interface: 4,094/4,094
• Aggregate interfaces (802.3ad), LACP