VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo
Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the next-generation security company,
today announced the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework, a
cloud-based framework that extends the capabilities of the Palo
Alto Next-Generation Security Platform, which will allow customer
organizations to rapidly consume and implement a variety of
innovative cloud-based security applications from any provider,
large or small.
This new framework represents a game-changing evolution of the
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, disrupting
the consumption model for organizations to rapidly access, evaluate
and adopt cutting-edge security technologies with the Palo Alto
Networks infrastructure they already have. It will extend the power
of the platform to more rapidly achieve automated, consistent and
scalable breach prevention capabilities, all delivered from the
cloud.
Traditional methods of creating and consuming security products
have not kept pace with today's need for the rapid development and
adoption of emerging security innovations for safeguarding
organizations' networks. The modern network defender is challenged
with continuously evaluating, deploying and operationalizing the
latest security innovations to keep up with the latest adversary
tactics. This puts high operational friction on security teams that
must constantly manage fragmented workflows, redundant sensor and
enforcement infrastructure, and multiple threat intelligence feeds,
all resulting in labor-intensive operations that can hamstring
their ability to prevent breaches.
The framework introduces a SaaS (software as a service)
consumption model, allowing customers to rapidly evaluate and
deploy new capabilities via security applications built by Palo
Alto Networks, third-party developers, MSSPs, and their own teams
to solve a myriad of security challenges and use cases. This new
model will leverage existing Palo Alto Networks sensors,
customer-specific data stores and security infrastructure, enabling
organizations to instantly activate cloud-delivered applications
from different providers as security needs change and without
deploying or managing additional products.
More than 30 security industry vendors have already engaged with
Palo Alto Networks to develop applications for the new Palo Alto
Networks Application Framework, including:
AlgoSec
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Fidelis
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Recorded Future
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Tenable
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Anomali
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FireMon
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SafeBreach
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ThreatQuotient
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Aruba, a Hewlett
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ForeScout
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SecurityScorecard
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Tufin
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Packard Enterprise
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FourV Systems
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Siemplify
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Wandera
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company
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HYAS
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Sift
Security
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Attivo Networks
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IBM
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Sisense
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BlackStratus
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Phantom
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Splunk
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Booz Allen Hamilton
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PhishMe
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Sqrrl
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Carbon Black
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Portnox
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Swimlane
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CrowdStrike
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Proofpoint
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Tanium
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ExtraHop
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ProtectWise
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Telstra
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Additionally, a venture fund is being established by Palo Alto
Networks, which, in collaboration with Greylock Partners and
Sequoia Capital, will seek to help finance early stage companies
that will develop applications for the framework (see related press
release, Palo Alto Networks Announces Formation of Venture Fund to
Radically Change Future of Security Innovation).
QUOTES
- "The Palo Alto Networks Application Framework brings a level of
agility for businesses to move at the speed they need and maximize
security dollars already spent with a flexible model of ecosystem
partners. It reduces the complexity of creating, deploying, and
integrating security innovations while leveraging the
infrastructure, scale, and enforcement provided by the Palo Alto
Networks Next-Generation Security Platform."
– Zeus Kerravala, founder and
principal analyst, ZK Research
- "Aruba fosters digital
transformation through technical innovation and the security of our
solutions. Joint customers worldwide leverage the integration of
Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager, Aruba Niara Behavioral Analytics
Platform, and Palo Alto Networks' Next-Generation Security Platform
to enhance protection. With the introduction of the Palo Alto
Networks Application Framework, we'll be able to leverage
the application framework's data exchange, rich sensors, and native
intelligence to deliver an even more compelling better-together
story for Aruba and Palo Alto
Networks."
– Michael Tennefoss, vice president
of Strategic Partnerships, Aruba,
a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
- "Phantom is proud to participate in the new Palo Alto Networks
Application Framework, which expands our opportunity to extend to
customers the capabilities that we deliver together. The framework
makes leveraging Phantom Playbooks a native capability of their
existing Palo Alto Networks deployments, resulting in better
security outcomes for customer organizations."
– Oliver Friedrichs, founder and
CEO, Phantom
- "Splunk sits at the heart of the Security Operations Center,
acting as the 'Security Nerve Center' to deliver analytics-driven
security that incorporates machine learning. Together, Splunk and
Palo Alto Networks deliver these capabilities through multiple
integrations that combine data from the Palo Alto Networks
Next-Generation Security Platform with security investigation and
enterprise-wide visibility from the Splunk platform. With the Palo
Alto Networks Application Framework, we look forward to continued
collaboration on our end-to-end approach for securing our joint
customers' infrastructures."
– Haiyan Song, senior vice president
of security markets, Splunk
- "Incremental change and siloed security technologies are
unacceptable approaches to counter the escalating cyberthreat
landscape. To achieve better security outcomes, the Palo Alto
Networks Application Framework changes the game against cyber
adversaries. Its new access model will unleash the next generation
of innovative security services, delivering them in a manner that
enables rapid adoption of new capabilities, more automation and
consistent security enforcement throughout the organization."
– Nir Zuk, founder and CTO, Palo
Alto Networks
Benefits of the Palo Alto Networks Application
Framework
- Superior security with high consistency: The framework
will unleash new security capabilities as an extension of the Palo
Alto Networks platform, which can be enforced with consistency
across all users and locations using Palo Alto Networks devices and
infrastructure.
- A new cloud-based application consumption model:
Applications can be consumed and updated quickly through the cloud
with no additional infrastructure or on-premise hardware changes,
eliminating operational friction, fragmented workflows and
redundant infrastructure throughout the organization.
- Drives innovation and entrepreneurship: Palo Alto
Networks, third-party providers, customers and entrepreneurs can
rapidly build, commercialize and scale innovative new applications
that deliver unique value and extend the capabilities of the Palo
Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform.
- Economic model of choice: SaaS delivery model minimizes
upfront infrastructure investment costs and offers customer
organizations predictable operational expense options.
Key Components of the Application Framework
- Customer-specific data store: The
customer-specific data store will allow applications to deliver
precise, instrumented outcomes built upon high-fidelity data. The
customer-specific data store includes threat intelligence derived
from more than 17,000 WildFire™ threat analysis service users,
human-curated threat context from Unit 42, and telemetry from over
100 other sources. Additionally, Palo Alto Networks Logging Service
functions as the central cloud-based repository for all application
data and logs, which will allow customers to collect ever-expanding
types of data, without needing to plan for local compute and
storage.
- Infrastructure: The framework will enable partners and
customers to rapidly build and deliver innovative, cloud-based
security services for the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation
Security Platform. Applications will be engineered on a common
framework for seamless integration and information exchange between
different applications, the customer-specific data store and the
infrastructure, enabling automated threat identification,
prevention, analytics and orchestration use cases from any
provider, large or small.
AVAILABILITY
The Palo Alto Networks Application Framework is expected to be
generally available in early 2018, with continuous and ongoing
introduction of new security applications.
LEARN MORE
- Palo Alto Networks Application Framework
- Palo Alto Networks Application Framework Venture
Fund
- Palo Alto Networks Logging Service
- Accelerating Security Innovation: Introducing the Palo Alto
Networks Application Framework
- Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security
Platform
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the next-generation security company, leading
a new era in cybersecurity by safely enabling applications and
preventing cyber breaches for tens of thousands of organizations
worldwide. Built with an innovative approach and highly
differentiated cyberthreat prevention capabilities, our
game-changing security platform delivers security far superior to
legacy or point products, safely enables daily business operations,
and protects an organization's most valuable assets. Find out more
at www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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