SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022
/PRNewswire/ — Cyber threats proceed to extend in quantity and
complexity with menace actors creating new methods to keep away from detection —
together with extremely evasive malware. To assist organizations outpace these
evolving threats, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the worldwide cybersecurity chief, at this time introduced PAN-OS® 11.0 Nova,
the newest model of its {industry} main PAN-OS software program, unleashing
50-plus product updates and improvements. Amongst them are the brand new Superior
WildFire® cloud-delivered safety service that brings unprecedented
safety towards evasive malware and the Superior Risk Prevention
(ATP) service which now protects towards zero-day injection assaults.
“We have noticed a major enhance in distinctive malware samples
over the past yr together with an growing degree of malware
sophistication. A brand new method is required to detect this superior
malware,” stated Anand Oswal, senior vp, Community Safety, Palo Alto Networks. “PAN-OS 11.0 Nova is a leap ahead in community safety.
It stops 26% extra zero-day malware than conventional sandboxes; detects
60% extra injection assaults; simplifies safety structure; and helps
organizations undertake cybersecurity finest practices. The underside line is
that Nova helps hold organizations one step forward of attackers.”
Safety In opposition to Zero-Day Threats
Superior WildFire: Fashionable malware is extremely
evasive and sandbox-aware. To unravel this drawback, sandboxes must
repeatedly evolve to thwart analysis-resistant evasion methods. The
new Superior WildFire service builds upon its customized hardened
hypervisor to introduce radical new capabilities, similar to clever
run-time reminiscence evaluation mixed with stealthy statement and
automated unpacking to remain hidden from malware and defeat superior
evasions. These new capabilities allow Superior WildFire to cease extra
extremely evasive zero-day malware than conventional sandboxes.
Superior Risk Prevention (ATP):
The improved ATP service reimagines the intrusion prevention system
(IPS) with industry-first inline capabilities for stopping zero-day
injection assaults. Injection assaults — one of many high assaults on the
OWASP “High 10 Net Utility Safety Dangers”
checklist — try to push malicious code right into a computing system by
exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in software program. Such malicious code
executes distant instructions that result in information loss or full system
compromise.
To guard towards such injection
assaults, ATP deep-learning fashions have been constructed on excessive constancy
telemetry information throughout tens of hundreds of exploited vulnerabilities
over the past decade. Inner testing has proven that the improved ATP
service detects 60% extra zero-day injection assaults that conventional
options miss.
Nova not solely units up the inspiration for contemporary
day community safety by repeatedly defending towards zero-day threats
but in addition raises the bar for a way organizations can proactively enhance
cyber hygiene and simplify safety architectures. Along with
Superior WildFire and Superior Risk Prevention, notable improvements in
the Nova launch embody:
Simplified and Constant Safety
Net Proxy Assist: For
clients who must run specific proxies of their community as a consequence of
community structure or compliance necessities, Nova introduces
natively built-in proxy capabilities for Palo Alto Networks NGFWs
serving to to safe Net in addition to non-Net visitors. Now Palo Alto Networks
NGFWs and Prisma® Entry assist internet proxy, permitting clients to
deploy constant community safety throughout campus areas, branches and
cellular customers, all managed centrally.
Integration of Subsequent-Technology CASB: Palo
Alto Networks Subsequent-Technology Cloud Entry Safety Dealer (CASB),
natively built-in with Nova and Prisma SASE, now contains all-new SaaS
Safety Posture Administration (SSPM) to assist discover and remove harmful
misconfigurations in 60-plus enterprise SaaS apps. Subsequent-Technology CASB now
additionally has assist for near-real time information safety in fashionable
collaboration apps and suspicious consumer habits detection, which helps
to guard delicate information in fashionable SaaS apps from compromised accounts
and insider threats.
Stronger Cyber Posture
AIOps: Palo
Alto Networks AIOps helps cut back misconfigurations that may result in
safety breaches. AIOps, launched earlier this yr, now processes 29B
metrics each month throughout 50,000 firewalls, and proactively shares
24,000 misconfigurations and different points with clients for decision
each month. With Nova, AIOps is much more proactive. AIOps now guards
towards violations of finest practices and allows remediation of
inefficiencies in safety insurance policies earlier than committing modifications, serving to
organizations strengthen defenses towards cyberattacks.
Along with all of the PAN-OS software program updates, a brand new set of 4th-generation ML-Powered NGFWs carry
these new capabilities to branches, campus areas and information facilities
at as much as 5x increased efficiency in comparison with the earlier era. The
new {hardware} firewalls additionally carry the pliability of fiber and Energy
over Ethernet (PoE) to small branches.
PA-445 and PA-415 for small branches:
The PA-445 and PA-415 carry the pliability of fiber and PoE ports to
distributed enterprises and small and medium companies. PoE powers
downstream units similar to entry factors, IP cameras, and IP telephones
with out the necessity for extra electrical circuits.The PA-445 and
PA-415 additionally carry improved resiliency with twin energy provides and
fanless cooling.
PA-1400 Sequence for big branches:
The brand new PA-1400 Sequence provides as much as 5x efficiency and as much as 7x the
session capability in comparison with the earlier era. The PA-1400 Sequence
is good for safeguarding giant department areas and small enterprise
campuses, with assist for PoE and fiber ports.
PA-5440 for big campus areas and information facilities:
We’re launching the very best performing fixed-form think about 2RU, the
PA-5440. This platform provides 2x the efficiency of the earlier
era PA-5260, and is good for safeguarding giant campus areas
and information facilities.
“Attackers proceed to develop new methods to evade
conventional defenses, whereas safety groups wrestle to defend
organizations with level options which are advanced to deploy and
function,” stated John Grady, ESG senior
analyst. “Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 11.0 Nova addresses these essential
challenges by stopping zero-day threats in real-time, simplifying
safety architectures, and enhancing cyber hygiene.”
Availability
PAN-OS
11.0 and many of the safety companies might be obtainable in November.
New ML-Powered NGFW platforms might be obtainable in December, and SSPM
might be obtainable on the NGFW platforms in January. Most safety
companies, together with Superior WildFire, might be appropriate with earlier
variations of PAN-OS.
Further Assets
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto
Networks is the world’s cybersecurity chief. We innovate to outpace
cyberthreats, so organizations can embrace expertise with confidence.
We offer next-gen cybersecurity to hundreds of consumers globally,
throughout all sectors. Our greatest-in-class cybersecurity platforms and
companies are backed by industry-leading menace intelligence and
strengthened by state-of-the-art automation. Whether or not deploying our
merchandise to allow the Zero Belief Enterprise, responding to a safety
incident, or partnering to ship higher safety outcomes by way of a
world-class associate ecosystem, we’re dedicated to serving to guarantee every
day is safer than the one earlier than. It is what makes us the cybersecurity
associate of selection.
At Palo Alto Networks, we’re dedicated to
bringing collectively the easiest individuals in service of our mission, so
we’re additionally proud to be the cybersecurity office of selection, acknowledged
amongst Newsweek’s Most Liked Workplaces (2022), Comparably Finest
Firms for Range (2021) and HRC Finest Locations for LGBTQ Equality
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