EXPLORING PALO ALTO NETWORKS' CLOUDDELIVERED SECURITY SERVICES

Palo Alto Networks is a leading global cybersecurity company that is committed to providing innovative solutions that address the most complex and challenging security threats facing organizations. In the exclusive interview with Tarek Abbas, Senior Director, Systems Engineering, Emerging Markets at Palo Alto Networks, talks to JNS Media International about his role, the latest cybersecurity trends, and how Palo Alto Networks is addressing the evolving security challenges of the digital age.

What are the key benefits of using Palo Alto Networks' Cloud-Delivered Security Services compared to other security solutions?

It is one of the industry’s most comprehensive range of proven best-in-class security services, delivered everywhere. It provides shared intelligence across security product categories and ensures complete coverage across all threat vectors, with 224B threats blocked/per day. Plus, the network effect of 85,000+ customers turns unknown threats to prevention 180x faster and delivers over 4.3m updates/day. Palo Alto Networks' Cloud-Delivered Security Services have the highest efficacy and ROI of any security vendor, providing leading security 30% faster than point solutions.

What are the unique features of Palo Alto Networks' Prisma® SD-WAN solution that make it stand out from other SD-WAN solutions in the market?

What were the main benefits and cost savings that a cost-benefit analysis performed by Forrester Consulting found for customers of Palo Alto Networks' cloud-delivered security services over a three-year period?

The main benefits were:

• Improved end-user productivity by having efficiency gains for IT, security, and network operations teams, business end users, and in-store workers with fewer incidents and investigations.

• Significantly reduced the likelihood of a data breach by 45% after three years.

• Reduced costs associated with licensing and managing legacy point-solution infrastructure.

• SOC teams were able to reduce the number of advanced investigations by 35%, improve MTTR by 20%, and cut the number of devices that require re-imaging by half, all resulting in $5.1 million saved over three years.

Palo Alto Networks has a unique approach with Prisma SD-WAN, the industry’s first and only Next-Generation SD-WAN solution, helping deliver an exceptional end-user experience with simplified operations and improved security outcomes which provides an ROI of up to 243%. It eliminates the complexity of traditional routing problems and deployment challenges by simplifying tedious network operations with AI and ML to reduce trouble tickets by 99% while extending consistent security to branches to reduce security breaches by 45%.

The most important features of this solution include security, integrated 5G, and extending SDbranch capabilities to the local area network (LAN). In addition, the Prisma CloudBlades platform delivers comprehensive branch services - such as security, multicloud, and collaboration tools without needing to update your branch appliance or controller. It also has enhanced AIOps capabilities to provide rich telemetry of network insights and ADEM, Palo Alto Networks' Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) which manages the digital experience for mobile and branch users. Palo Alto Networks is also the first vendor in the industry to offer SD-WAN Bandwidth On-Demand.