



Provisioning of Resource Access Policies from PPS to the Palo Alto Networks Firewall Enforcer is not supported. To enable User-ID enforcement, you must enable User Identification on both inbound and outbound zones traversed by the end-user traffic.ġ.Select Palo Alto Networks > Network > Zones.Ģ.For each zone that serves as an inbound or outbound zone for enforced traffic, click the zone name (For example, trust, untrust, and so on).ģ.Select Enable User Identification and click OK. The data traffic flows freely within a zone and not between different zones until you define a security policy rule that allows it. Policy rules on the firewall use security zones to identify the source and the destination of the traffic. Configuring User Identification on Security Zones It determines the role(s) associated with that user and allows or denies the traffic based on the actions configured in the security policy. Thanks to local storage capabilities, Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls store logs locally and allows for improved packet capture, web cache, and network optimizations.Palo Alto Networks firewall detects traffic from an endpoint that matches a configured security policy using the endpoint's auth table entry. Many firewalls on the market do not come with local storage, so when the firewall reboots or spontaneously resets back to its factory reconfiguration, you lose all log and historical data. Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls have an extended life because of the way they are architected with flexible chipsets that can be upgraded and fundamentally reconfigured as new firewall rules and software develop. The average firewall needs to be replaced every 4-5 years, not due to equipment failures, but because the hard-coded firewall chipset can no longer be reprogrammed with the latest firewall OS to defend your network properly. While most firewalls will suffer from performance degradation whenever more security features are turned on and bottleneck traffic, Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall users do not have to trade speed for security. Palo Alto Networks utilizes single-pass architecture, allowing us to inspect and protect traffic at high rates.

Most firewalls report flow rates without security protections enabled, and they even default their configuration to disabling all security features. Discover some of the compelling reasons why we think PAN firewalls are the best. As a managed IT services provider, it was an easy decision to feature PAN firewalls in our Technology Stack and to leverage our vendor partnership to deliver advanced, enterprise-grade technology to our SMB customers.
