Ben, Let me respond to your April 30 post by topics including Policy Management, Fine Grained Application Control, Intrusion Prevention, Latency, QoS, Internal Network Management, Market Acceptance, and Gartner's next-generation firewall analysis. If...

There is no doubt that PA is smaller than Cisco. But, like I said in my earlier responses today to trustcisco and dpalmero, if your goal is to protect your digital assets, you need a firewall like PA. Gartner calls it next-generation. If you want the...

Please review my response to trustcisco from this morning. PA brings something truly new to the table – it can actually protect your digital assets. Traditional stateful inspection firewalls are practically useless in the face of the hundreds and hun...

PA’s target is protecting your digital assets.PA has built something that is fundamentally new. All firewalls from Cisco, Check Point, and Juniper are stateful inspection based. A stateful inspection firewall’s session/packet analysis starts by analy...

Palo Alto Networks represents a totally new type of firewall. It supports all the standard port- and IP-based type policy rules you use now, but goes on to enable policies based on applications, users, and content.The reason this is important is that...