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Palo Alto Networks has announced the expansion of vendors within its Technology Partner Program -- a program committed to arming mutual customers with integrated solutions that fundamentally improve network security and risk management for enterprises. These new vendors extend the ecosystem of the Technology Partner Program to address large enterprise and service provider requirements such as securing data centers and mobility applications. The new vendors are as follows:

• Arista Networks
• Enterasys
• Gigamon
• NetOptics
• NitroSecurity
• Nordic Edge

"Enterprise IT organizations now view us as an essential vendor in their networks and so it's incumbent upon us to continue collaborating with our industry's best-in-class vendors to ensure that customers can reap the most from their network security investments," said Punit Minocha, vice president of corporate and business development at Palo Alto Networks. "Customers have quickly taken to these combined solutions offered by us and our inaugural partners -- ArcSight (an HP Company), Firemon (formerly Secure Passage), NetWitness Corporation, Q1 Labs, RSA, Solera Networks, Splunk and Tufin Technologies -- and we are confident that these new six solution offerings will make our program even more applicable to the diverse enterprise infrastructures and security requirements out there."

Palo Alto Networks: The Established Next-Generation Firewall Market Leader

Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewall provides policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content to over 4,500 enterprises worldwide. Only Palo Alto Networks customers can safely enable applications while scanning this content for threats and potential data leakage.

Palo Alto Networks has fixed the problems associated with traditional firewalls by combining three identification technologies that provide visibility and control over applications, users and content. App-ID identifies exactly which applications are running on the network, as well as the associated risks, so administrators can deploy comprehensive application usage control policies for inbound and outbound traffic. User-ID integrates with enterprise directory services (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory and other LDAP directories) to link network activity to users and groups -- not just IP addresses -- for application visibility, policy creation, logging and reporting. Content-ID combines a real-time threat prevention engine with a comprehensive URL database to detect and block a wide range of threats, limit unauthorized transfer of files and data, and control non-work related Web surfing.

Information on more than 1,300 applications that are identified by Palo Alto Networks can be found in Applipedia, part of the company's Application and Threat Research Center.