Palo Alto Networks

The World’s First ML-Powered Firewall – Hardware, Virtual and Cloud-Delivered

What Is It?

The Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) is the industry’s most advanced network security platform, available as physical hardware appliances, virtual machines, containerised instances, and as a fully cloud-native managed service on AWS and Azure. First introduced by Palo Alto Networks in 2008, the NGFW redefined what a firewall could do, and it continues to lead the industry today.

Unlike traditional firewalls that only inspect traffic based on ports and protocols, the Palo Alto NGFW inspects every packet at Layer 7, the application layer, giving your security team complete visibility into what is actually running on your network, who is using it, and what it is doing. Its single-pass architecture processes traffic through all security engines simultaneously, delivering maximum protection without sacrificing performance.

Key Capabilities

App-ID identifies and controls over 3,000 applications regardless of port, protocol or encryption, preventing evasion techniques that defeat legacy firewalls
User-ID ties network activity to specific users rather than just IP addresses, enabling granular, identity-aware policy enforcement
Content-ID inspects all traffic for threats, malicious URLs, sensitive data and unknown files in a single pass
Device-ID automatically identifies and profiles IoT and OT devices to extend security policy to unmanaged assets
Inline ML detects and blocks novel, zero-day threats in real time without relying on signature updates, with zero-delay signature sharing across all connected firewalls globally
SSL/TLS decryption inspects encrypted traffic, where the majority of modern threats now hide
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) verifies every user and device before granting least-privilege access to resources
AIOps uses machine learning to predict firewall health issues, recommend best practice improvements and automate operational tasks

Deployment Flexibility

The NGFW portfolio covers every environment and scale, from compact branch-office appliances to chassis-based systems delivering over 1.5 Tbps of threat performance for hyperscale data centres. Virtual (VM-Series) and containerised (CN-Series) options secure cloud and Kubernetes environments, while Cloud NGFW delivers the same capabilities as a fully managed service on AWS and Azure.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

Every organisation, regardless of size or sector, needs a network security foundation that can tell the difference between legitimate business traffic and a threat, including threats hidden inside encrypted traffic. Traditional firewalls cannot do this. The Palo Alto NGFW gives your security team the visibility and control to enforce policy based on real-world context: what the application is, who is using it, and whether the content is safe. Named a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewall Solutions (Q4 2024) and the only ML-powered NGFW on the market, this is the gold standard in network security.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Pure Networks holds the Palo Alto Networks Diamond Innovator designation, the highest tier of partner accreditation globally. Our engineers are certified across the full NGFW portfolio, from initial design and sizing through to deployment, Panorama integration, and ongoing managed support. We have delivered NGFW projects across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and the public sector in Ireland and internationally.

Securing the Modern Workforce – Where Work Actually Happens

What Is It?

Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-delivered security platform that converges networking and security into a single, unified solution for the modern, distributed workforce. It combines Prisma Access (the Security Service Edge component), Prisma SD-WAN (software-defined networking for branches), and Strata Cloud Manager (AI-powered centralised management).

A named Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms for three consecutive years, Prisma SASE is trusted by over 6,300 organisations globally, including one third of the Fortune 500. In fiscal year 2025 alone, it generated over $1.3 billion in revenue, growing at 35% year-over-year.

Prisma Browser – A Significant New Development

The browser has become the primary interface through which knowledge workers access applications, data and AI tools. Palo Alto Networks research found that 85% of work today happens in browsers, and their 2025 Unit 42 Incident Report found that nearly half of all security incidents involved malicious activity initiated through employees’ browsers, including phishing, URL redirect abuse and malware downloads.
Prisma Browser is the world’s only SASE-native enterprise browser. Rather than treating the browser as a gateway to inspect traffic flowing through it, Prisma Browser integrates security directly into the browsing experience, catching threats that fully assemble inside the browser after page load, where traditional Secure Web Gateways have a critical blind spot.

Core Capabilities of Prisma SASE

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) replaces legacy VPN with identity-aware, least-privilege access to all applications, reducing the attack surface and eliminating implicit trust
Secure Web Gateway (SWG) protects all users from web-based threats with real-time AI-powered analysis, blocking malicious sites, phishing pages and drive-by malware
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) provides deep visibility and granular control over SaaS application usage, preventing data exfiltration and enforcing acceptable use
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) uses AI-augmented classification to automatically identify and protect sensitive data across structured, unstructured and AI-generated content, with 10x fewer false positives than traditional methods
Prisma Browser provides in-browser advanced web protection that inspects fully rendered webpages in real time, blocking threats that emerge after page load without requiring transport-layer decryption
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) delivers continuous visibility into SaaS-based AI agents, copilots and plugins accessing corporate data
SD-WAN provides intelligent application-aware routing for branches, optimising performance for cloud and SaaS traffic

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

The traditional network perimeter no longer exists. Your users work from home, in coffee shops, at customer sites, accessing cloud applications directly. Legacy security models that route all traffic through a central data centre create both performance bottlenecks and security gaps. Prisma SASE brings security to where users and data actually are, enforcing consistent Zero Trust policies regardless of location or device. For organisations dealing with hybrid working, BYOD, SaaS sprawl or growing regulatory obligations around data protection, Prisma SASE is the architecture that makes modern working both secure and productive.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Pure Networks engineers are Prisma SASE certified and have practical deployment experience across a range of customer environments. We help organisations assess their readiness, design the right architecture for their workforce model, and manage the transition away from legacy VPN and perimeter-based security without disrupting productivity.

AI-Driven Extended Detection and Response – See Everything, Stop Everything

What Is It?

Cortex XDR is Palo Alto Networks’ extended detection and response (XDR) platform, and it represents a fundamental shift in how organisations approach threat detection and response. Traditional endpoint security tools operate in isolation, seeing only what happens on the endpoint. Cortex XDR goes much further, correlating data from endpoints, networks, cloud environments, identity systems and email into a unified platform, applying AI and machine learning to detect the sophisticated, multi-vector attacks that siloed tools consistently miss.

The platform is available in two tiers: XDR Prevent (enterprise endpoint protection focused on prevention) and XDR Pro (full cross-data analytics extending to network, cloud and identity). Both tiers are managed through a single cloud-based console.

Key Capabilities

AI-powered threat detection uses machine learning models to analyse behavioural patterns across all data sources, detecting known malware, zero-day exploits, fileless attacks and insider threats that signature-based tools cannot see
Prevention modules stop every modern attack technique including exploit prevention, ransomware protection, credential theft prevention and hijacking of legitimate processes
Root cause analysis automatically reconstructs the full attack chain, showing exactly how a threat entered the environment, how it spread, and what assets were affected, reducing investigation time from hours to minutes
Automated response isolates compromised hosts, kills malicious processes, blocks network connections and quarantines files without waiting for human intervention
Identity threat detection and response detects credential-based attacks, account compromises and suspicious lateral movement
Cloud detection and response extends visibility and control to cloud workloads across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Threat hunting provides analysts with rich forensic data and query tools to proactively hunt for indicators of compromise
100% detection with no delays or configuration changes in MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations Round 6

Independent Validation

In the AV-Comparatives 2025 Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) test, Cortex XDR achieved 99% in both threat prevention and response, the only endpoint security market leader to reach this benchmark. It automatically stopped threats at the earliest stage of the attack chain in 98% of scenarios tested, preventing lateral movement before it could begin.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

Attackers do not operate within the boundaries of a single tool’s visibility. A phishing email leads to a compromised credential, which enables lateral movement across the network, which ultimately results in data exfiltration from a cloud storage bucket. No endpoint tool, no network tool and no cloud security tool working in isolation would see the full picture. Cortex XDR does. By correlating data across all these domains and applying AI to find the signal in the noise, it dramatically reduces the time between initial compromise and detection, and gives your team the context they need to respond decisively.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Networks engineers are Cortex XDR certified and have hands-on deployment and tuning experience across multiple customer environments. We size and scope deployments correctly from the start, ensure integrations with existing infrastructure are configured for maximum value, and provide ongoing managed support to keep the platform performing at its best.

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response – Your SOC, Supercharged

What Is It?

Cortex XSOAR (Extended Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) is the industry’s most comprehensive SOAR platform, designed to transform the way security operations centres work. The fundamental problem it solves is this: modern security teams are overwhelmed. Alert volumes are growing faster than headcount, threats are becoming more complex, and every manual step in an incident response workflow is a delay that attackers can exploit.

Cortex XSOAR unifies case management, workflow automation, real-time collaboration and threat intelligence management into a single platform. It integrates with over 700 security and business products, enabling security teams to orchestrate a response across their entire technology stack, not just Palo Alto Networks tools.

How It Works

At the heart of XSOAR are playbooks, automated and codified workflows that define exactly how your team responds to specific incident types. When a phishing alert fires, for example, a playbook can automatically enrich the alert with threat intelligence, check the sender’s domain reputation, quarantine the email across all affected mailboxes, reset the user’s credentials if a compromise is detected, create a detailed incident record, and notify the relevant stakeholders, all without human intervention. What might take an analyst 45 minutes to do manually can be completed in under 60 seconds.

Key Capabilities

Automation playbooks allow teams to build and deploy automated response workflows using a visual, codeless editor; hundreds of pre-built playbooks for common use cases including phishing, malware, ransomware and vulnerability response are available out of the box
700+ integrations connect to virtually any security or business tool your organisation uses, creating a truly orchestrated response capability
Case management is a fully customisable incident management system that gives analysts a single interface for investigating, collaborating and documenting incidents
Threat intelligence management aggregates, correlates and operationalises threat intelligence from multiple sources, ensuring the most relevant intelligence is automatically applied during incident triage
Machine learning-assisted triage learns from past analyst decisions to recommend actions and prioritise alerts, reducing false positive fatigue
Real-time collaboration provides a built-in war room that enables multiple analysts to collaborate on an active incident in real time, with a full audit trail for post-incident review
Flexible deployment is available on-premises, in a private cloud, or as a fully hosted SaaS solution

The Results

Organisations deploying Cortex XSOAR consistently report significant operational improvements. Incident response time can be reduced by 90% or more, with up to 95% of routine response actions automated. One public sector deployment described the efficiency gain as equivalent to adding eight to ten SOC analysts without hiring a single additional person.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

Security operations teams face a painful reality: too many alerts, too few analysts, and too many manual steps between detection and resolution. Every minute of delay in responding to an active threat is another minute the attacker has to move laterally, escalate privileges or exfiltrate data. XSOAR does not replace your analysts, it amplifies them, handling the repetitive, time-consuming tasks that drain capacity and attention, so your team can focus on the investigations and decisions that genuinely require human judgement. For organisations building out or maturing a SOC function, XSOAR is the platform that makes the operation scale. Note: Palo Alto Networks has announced Cortex AgentiX, the next evolution of XSOAR, which brings agentic AI capabilities to SOC automation. Pure Networks will keep customers informed as this platform becomes generally available.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Pure Networks has practical experience deploying and configuring Cortex XSOAR, including playbook development, integration configuration and SOC workflow design. We work with customers to identify the highest-value automation use cases first, delivering quick wins that build momentum and justify further investment, before expanding to more complex orchestration scenarios.

One Console. Total Visibility. Consistent Policy Across Every Firewall You Operate.

What Is It?

Panorama is Palo Alto Networks’ centralised network security management platform, providing a single pane of glass for monitoring, configuring and managing any number of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls, whether they are physical appliances, virtual machines, cloud-deployed instances or Prisma Access environments.
For organisations operating more than a handful of firewalls, managing each device individually quickly becomes unsustainable. Policies drift. Configurations become inconsistent. Auditing becomes a nightmare. Security gaps open up in the spaces between devices that are managed in isolation. Panorama eliminates all of this by providing a single, authoritative source of truth for your entire network security estate.

Key Capabilities

Centralised policy management allows teams to create, deploy and enforce security policies across all managed firewalls simultaneously, using device groups and templates to maintain consistency without sacrificing the flexibility needed for local requirements
Application Command Centre (ACC) is an aggregated, real-time dashboard providing visibility into all applications, users, threats and content traversing your entire network estate, with drill-down to device-level detail
Centralised logging aggregates logs from all managed firewalls into a single repository for correlation, analysis and long-term retention, essential for compliance reporting and forensic investigation
Role-based administration delegates appropriate levels of administrative access at the device, group or global level, ensuring security engineers can do their jobs without unnecessary exposure to the broader configuration
Zero Touch Provisioning automates the onboarding of new NGFW devices with pre-defined configuration templates, reducing deployment time and eliminating manual configuration errors
Software and content update management centrally manages PAN-OS software updates, threat intelligence content updates and licence management across all devices
Panorama shares the exact same web-based interface as individual firewalls, eliminating the learning curve and allowing administrators to switch seamlessly between centralised and device-level management
Panorama Interconnect scales management to tens of thousands of devices for large enterprise and service provider environments

Compliance and Audit

For organisations operating under regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, NIS2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS or sector-specific standards, Panorama’s centralised logging and reporting capabilities are invaluable. Comprehensive audit trails, customisable reports and the ability to demonstrate consistent policy enforcement across the entire network estate significantly simplify compliance activities.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

As organisations grow, adding branch offices, cloud environments and new security zones, the complexity of managing firewalls individually grows exponentially. Inconsistent policies are one of the most common root causes of security breaches: an exception made on one device, a rule not replicated to another, a software version left unpatched because the update was never pushed. Panorama removes this risk by making centralised, consistent management the default. It also dramatically reduces the operational cost of running a multi-firewall environment, freeing up engineer time that would otherwise be spent on repetitive device-level tasks. For Pure Networks managed service customers, Panorama is the engine that allows us to manage your firewall estate efficiently and consistently on your behalf.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Pure Networks engineers are Panorama-certified and use the platform to manage customer firewall environments as part of our managed services offering. We design Panorama deployments correctly from the start, with the right device group and template structure to give you both central control and the local policy flexibility you need. Whether you are deploying Panorama for the first time, migrating from individual device management, or integrating Prisma Access into an existing Panorama deployment, our team has done it before.

Extended Security Intelligence and Automation Management – The AI-Driven SOC Platform

What Is It?

Cortex XSIAM is Palo Alto Networks’ flagship security operations platform, and it is not an evolution of the traditional SIEM. It is a ground-up replacement for it. Where a legacy SIEM collects logs and generates alerts for analysts to investigate manually, XSIAM consolidates the functions of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, UEBA, threat intelligence and attack surface management into a single AI-driven platform that detects, triages and responds to the vast majority of threats automatically.

Powered by over 2,900 machine learning models applied continuously across all ingested data, including endpoint, network, cloud, identity and email, XSIAM reduces thousands of daily alerts to a small number of prioritised, context-rich incidents. The platform’s own internal SOC processes over one trillion events per month and reduces that to a handful of analyst incidents per day.

Key Capabilities

Unified data lake ingests and normalises security telemetry from across the entire IT estate, eliminating data silos and enabling cross-domain threat correlation
2,900+ ML models detect sophisticated, multi-stage attacks that siloed tools consistently miss, including threats that deliberately spread activity across endpoints, network and cloud
Automated triage and response groups related events into prioritised incidents with full root cause context; Cortex AgentiX, trained on 1.2 billion real playbook executions, executes automated responses at machine speed
Proactive exposure management in XSIAM 3.0 delivers AI-driven vulnerability prioritisation focused on active exploitation risk, cutting vulnerability noise by up to 99%
Advanced email security in XSIAM 3.0 provides LLM-powered threat detection with automated malicious email removal and endpoint isolation
Unit 42 threat intelligence is continuously updated with intelligence from Palo Alto Networks’ global threat research team
Full MITRE ATT&CK coverage with 13,300+ up-to-date detections across the complete framework

Proven Results

Cortex XSIAM surpassed $1 billion in cumulative bookings faster than any product in Palo Alto Networks history. A Forrester Total Economic Impact study found customers achieve 257% ROI, a sub-six-month payback, and 73% cost savings compared to traditional approaches. More than 60% of customers have reduced median time to respond from days or weeks to minutes.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

The volume and velocity of modern threats has outgrown the capacity of human-driven security operations. XSIAM puts AI and automation at the centre of your SOC, not bolted on as an afterthought. For organisations running a legacy SIEM that requires constant manual tuning, or SOC teams overwhelmed by alert fatigue, XSIAM delivers a step-change in both security effectiveness and operational efficiency. It also consolidates multiple point products onto a single platform, significantly reducing licensing complexity and cost.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Pure Networks can assess your current security operations environment, build the business case for XSIAM adoption, and manage the migration from legacy platforms, with measurable detection and response outcomes achievable within 90 days. As a Diamond Innovator partner, we have the engineering depth to configure XSIAM for maximum value from day one.

AI-Powered Unified Management for Your Entire Network Security Stack

What Is It?

Strata Cloud Manager is Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation network security management platform, the evolution of Panorama into a fully cloud-native, AI-powered management experience. Where Panorama focuses on centralised firewall management, Strata Cloud Manager takes a broader view, providing a single unified interface for managing, monitoring and optimising your entire Palo Alto Networks network security estate: NGFWs, Prisma Access, Prisma SD-WAN, and cloud-delivered security services, all from one place.

Strata Cloud Manager consolidates what were previously separate tools, including Cloud Manager, AIOps for NGFW, and Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM), into a single integrated platform. The result is a significantly simplified operational experience, with AI working continuously in the background to predict problems, recommend improvements, and help your team respond faster.

Key Capabilities

Unified management provides a single interface for NGFWs and the entire SASE environment, eliminating the need to switch between multiple management consoles
Shared security policy allows teams to create and enforce consistent Zero Trust policies across both NGFW and SASE deployments from one policy framework
AIOps uses machine learning to analyse device telemetry and configuration, predict outages up to 90 days in advance, recommend best practice improvements, and reduce manual operational effort
Strata Copilot is a natural language AI assistant that allows administrators to query their security environment, get recommended next steps, and manage configurations conversationally
AI Canvas transforms raw telemetry into actionable, on-demand visualisations through natural language queries, eliminating the need for third-party BI tools
Best practice checks provide real-time automated assessment of security configurations against Palo Alto Networks best practices, with inline remediation guidance
Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) delivers end-to-end visibility into user experience across SaaS and private applications, with hop-by-hop performance monitoring
Centralised compliance and reporting provides automated workflows for NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS and CIS CSC compliance reporting
Zero Touch Provisioning automates the onboarding of new firewall devices using pre-defined configuration templates

Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama

Strata Cloud Manager is the strategic evolution of Panorama. Panorama remains a fully supported and widely deployed platform, and is the right choice for many environments today, particularly those with purely on-premises NGFW deployments. Strata Cloud Manager extends that capability to encompass SASE, cloud environments and AI-driven operational intelligence. For organisations deploying or expanding Prisma Access, or building a modern hybrid security architecture, Strata Cloud Manager provides the unified management experience designed for that environment.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

As network security environments become more distributed, spanning on-premises firewalls, cloud workloads, branch offices and a hybrid workforce, managing them through separate tools becomes increasingly untenable. Strata Cloud Manager gives you a single authoritative view of your entire security posture, with AI working continuously to keep it healthy, consistent and optimised. For organisations looking to reduce operational complexity, accelerate incident response, and ensure their security policies are consistently enforced everywhere, Strata Cloud Manager is the management foundation that makes it possible.

The Pure Networks Advantage

Pure Networks engineers are experienced in both Panorama and Strata Cloud Manager deployments and can advise on the right management architecture for your specific environment. Whether you are extending an existing Panorama deployment, migrating to Strata Cloud Manager, or designing a new management architecture alongside a Prisma SASE deployment, our team has the expertise to do it correctly.

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