White Papers: Palo Alto Networks

This risk report provides a global view into enterprise application usage by summarising network traffic assessments conducted in 2,036 organisations worldwide between November 2011 and May 2012. Key findings include: Streaming video bandwidth consumption triples to 13%, P2P filesharing bandwidth consumption skyrockets 700%, and that social networking continues to define itself. View the detailed report.

The ever-increasing demands for application availability and performance, the constantly evolving threat landscape, and the need to understand what is happening with applications from a security perspective combine to make the seemingly easy demands for data center network security much more difficult to meet. Indeed, most organizations have been forced into significant compromises – trading security, function, and visibility for performance, simplicity, and efficiency. Read on.

The firewall market has traditionally been a staple, yet, mature market within the security space with little innovation being introduced. However, with the rapid change in the technology and threat landscape, a newer breed of of innovation focussing on applications visibility and control, termed Next Generation Firewalls has surfaced. This paper examines how Next Generation Firewalls can help organisations identify and block threat, while at the same time enforcing policies at an application level and ultimately helping organisations reduce the number of security devices and thus, saving costs.