Security in Data Centers: Palo Alto Firewalls
Security in data centers is not always the center of attention for those users who only use terminal stations in a network. The only thing the billing clerk or the one responsible for controlling stock needs is the friendly and easy access to information centralized in servers. In other words, the data must remain available, yet safe and protected from malicious intrusions.
Each data center today contains a lot of terminal equipment, servers for databases and applications, web servers, load balancers and storage systems. All this equipment should be complemented with sources of safe power supply, with environmental controls, security and, at the same time, compatible with the diversity of devices we use every day, such as smartphones.
In this context, security in data centers is not a luxury or eccentricity: it is a matter of life or death for a company. In a world in which we are 100% connected and depending on the Net of networks and cloud storage, Firewalls are the front line. To put it in simple words, we call firewalls a system that provides a computer network (or an individual computer) with protection against intrusions from the Internet.
It is quite a responsibility to choose a firewall. The purpose is to save hours of research by recommending a solution that has been already tested and assessed by tens of thousands of people responsible for global support: Palo Alto firewall series 5000.
The truth is that Palo Alto Networks is a company that offers a full line of cutting-edge devices in terms of security in data centers. The PA-200 was designed to exchange work with the remote offices of a company, the PA-7050 is a modular chassis specially designed to optimize the performance of high-speed data centers.
It is important to highlight that a firewall can be software (a useful alternative for small home networks) or hardware (one or more device to ensure security). So it is possible to filter all the data flow by regulating the traffic between your internal network and the outside. The firewall will allow a connection, block it, or redirect a connection request if it is not considered secure without alerting the sender so that it allows us to explore the nature of that sender.
Having efficient platform architecture, such as Palo Alto’s 5000 series Firewall ensures an intelligent analysis, based on a powerful software engine capable of starting up very easily the processing of specific functions for security in data centers and network protection.
Even better, it prevents threats, with a management-oriented performance. In a word, Palo Alto Firewall 5000 series summarizes that word we like so much: Solution.
Let’s see some of its technical features!
For more information, just watch this demo by Palo Alto Networks about its cutting-edge firewalls!
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