Palo Alto Networks Named Best of Interop Grand Prize Winner
Posted on April 30, 2008
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LAS VEGAS, April 30 /PRNewswire/ — Interop Booth 433 - Expanding its
list of industry-wide endorsements, Palo Alto Networks today announced that
its next-generation firewall, the PA-4000 Series, has earned the
much-coveted Best of Interop Grand Prize Award.
InformationWeek’s panel of expert judges awarded Palo Alto Networks
with a pair of honors. In addition to highlighting the company as the Best
of Interop overall, Palo Alto Networks also earned the top spot in the
hotly contested security category. Judges cited the company’s innovation
and contribution to the continuing evolution of business security
technology as key qualifications that set it apart from the competition.
“With the increase in exhibitors this year, competition was especially
tough for the Best of Interop Awards,” said Lenny Heymann, Interop General
Manager. “We congratulate Palo Alto Networks for its contributions — and
for demonstrating that Interop is the leading business technology event to
come see the exciting and latest advancements in the industry.”
Palo Alto Networks’ PA-4000 Series provides organizations the ability
to identify, categorize and control applications and user behavior. This
enables enterprises to safely deploy Web 2.0 and other new applications,
while implementing effective, application-centric security and compliance
policies. At Interop, Palo Alto Networks further differentiated the PA-4000
Series by unveiling PAN-OS v2.0, comprising a range of first-to-market
capabilities for its next-generation firewall. (See release: Palo Alto
Networks Announces v2.0 of PAN-OS, Strengthens Application Visibility and
Control Leadership)
“Organizations and their employees want to capitalize on new
applications that improve productivity and communications,” said Palo Alto
Networks Vice President of Marketing Steve Mullaney. “But, they have to do
that while also ensuring the necessary safeguards for security and
compliance. The PA-4000 Series was built from the ground up to accommodate
those requirements. Given the caliber of the competition and the judging
criteria, we’re especially thrilled by the validation the Best of Interop
award signals for our technology, product and vision. It’s a real honor.”
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks(TM) enables visibility and policy control of
applications running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID(TM)
application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000
Series next-generation firewall accurately identifies applications –
regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption — at
10Gbps with no performance degradation. Enterprises can now set and enforce
application usage policies to meet compliance requirements, improve threat
mitigation and lower operational costs. The Palo Alto Networks team
includes security and networking industry veterans from Check Point,
NetScreen, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper and Blue Coat. It is backed by investors
Globespan Capital Partners, Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital. For more
information, visit http://www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks Logo and App-ID are
trademarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in the United States. All other
trademarks, trade names or service marks used or mentioned herein belong to
their respective owners.
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