Palo Alto Networks Strata

Palo Alto Networks (Strata) is the terrifyingly massive, deeply entrenched leviathan that completely invented and dominates the "Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)" market. Before Palo Alto, firewalls just looked at IP addresses and Port numbers (which hackers easily bypassed). Palo Alto mathematically re-engineered the entire concept of a firewall to look deep inside the actual data packet (Deep Packet Inspection), identifying the exact Application and the exact User, regardless of the port. Its signature feature is "App-ID and User-ID." A hacker might disguise malware by sending it over Port 80 (standard web traffic). Palo Alto's mathematical engine strips the packet down to its core architecture. It mathematically identifies that the traffic is not web traffic, but actually an unauthorized BitTorrent client or a remote-access Trojan, and instantly blocks it. It then mathematically ties that specific traffic to "John Smith in Accounting" using Active Directory integration. It heavily dominates "Massive Threat Intelligence (WildFire)." When a brand-new, zero-day malware variant hits a Palo Alto firewall in Tokyo, the firewall doesn't know what it is. It mathematically intercepts the file and sends it to the WildFire cloud sandbox. WildFire mathematically detonates the file, observes its behavior, confirms it is malware, generates a mathematical signature, and automatically updates every single Palo Alto firewall on Earth within 5 minutes, creating a global immune system.