PA-Series Next-Generation Firewalls
Palo Alto Networks' physical and virtual NGFW line, spanning branch-office to data-center models and managed centrally through Strata Cloud Manager. App-ID and Content-ID inspect traffic by application rather than port, with cloud sandboxing, inline TLS decryption, and Advanced Threat Prevention — a full inline IPS native to PAN-OS — built into the same appliance.
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- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- On-premHybrid
- Organization size
- SMBMid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
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Capability checklist
NGFWHow PA-Series Next-Generation Firewalls measures up against the full Next-Generation Firewall taxonomy.
- Application awareness — supported
- Identifies and controls traffic by application, not just by port or protocol.
- Built-in intrusion prevention — supported
- Blocks known exploit attempts and attack patterns inline, without a separate box.
- Encrypted traffic inspection — supported
- Decrypts and inspects TLS traffic to catch threats hidden inside encrypted sessions.
- URL & content filtering — supported
- Blocks access to malicious, risky, or policy-violating web categories.
- Cloud sandboxing — supported
- Detonates suspicious files in an isolated environment to catch unknown malware.
- Centralized policy management — supported
- Manages rules and logs across many firewalls and sites from one console.
- VPN & remote access — supported
- Terminates site-to-site and remote-user VPN connections on the same appliance.
Alternatives
Other Next-Generation Firewall tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.
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