Computrad USA LLC Partners with Palo Alto Networks to Bring the First Next Generation Layer 7 Firewall To The USA

Computrad USA LLC, a network and security specialist company, has developed a new strategic partnership with Palo Alto Networks, and are introducing a fundamentally new concept in firewalls to customers in Europe and USA.

Enterprise networks are being populated by a new generation of end-user applications, both personal and business oriented, that are designed to evade detection by existing firewalls. These new applications have joined enterprise applications that use similar evasion tactics, albeit in a positive manner, to simplify wide-spread access and speed implementation cycles. The end result is that IT departments can no longer identify or control the applications that are flowing in and out of the network

With traditional firewalls unable to “see” the increasing number of applications using sophisticated security evasion techniques such as dynamic or random port numbers and/or application emulation/tunnelling, enterprise networks are rife with unapproved and uncontrollable applications, bringing unwanted exposure to a wide range of security and compliance-related risks.

Palo Alto Networks and Computrad Relationship Provides Strategic Business Services

Palo Alto Networks’ family of next-generation firewalls enables more effective risk management on enterprise networks by employing business-relevant elements such as applications, users, and content as the basis for policy control. With its next generation firewalls, Palo Alto Networks addresses key shortcomings that plague traditional Stateful-Inspection based firewalls–a reliance on port/protocol to identify the applications and the assumption that an IP address equates to a users identity.

Palo Alto Networks, the first true layer7 Firewall

As a longstanding specialist in Security and Application Optimization, Computrad’s leading product portfolio includes the likes of Fortinet and Juniper, however for its new Layer seven Firewall managed service offering, Computrad turned to Palo Alto Networks integrated multi-service platform as the only comprehensive solution with the capability to provide the strategic solution required to meet the needs of Computrad’s managed service customers.

“When it comes to ensuring that applications are securely delivered, we understand every business is unique and our security managed services are designed to provide the tailored approach to meet our customer’s specific business needs,” explains Scott Moors, Business Development Director at Computrad USA.

“As such, it was critical to choose a solution that could secure each and every application, and unlike its competitors, Palo Alto Networks can identify all IP traffic, not just TCP ports. Palo Alto Networks also stood apart from its competitors with its three unique identification technologies to accurately identify the application, and maps the application to the user identity while inspecting the traffic for content policy violations. By focusing on business-relevant elements such as applications, users, and content for policy controls, Computrad’s Application security service is unique in the market with its focus on the application’s itself not just TCP ports.

Karl Driesen, Palo Alto VP Sales EMEA, comments “For companies of all sizes, business productivity is increasingly all about the application. Computrad’s heritage in security managed services sets them clearly ahead of its competitors in understanding the market, and its emphasis on providing strategic business services is perfectly suited to Palo Alto Networks technology, and its ability to support a number of key IT initiatives. We look forward to working together to provide unsurpassed network and application security to bring real business benefits to their service customers.”

About Computrad

Computrad USA LLC is the leader in application Security, combining our technical ability with our intellectual property expertise and wide range of solutions, thus we are unique in what we are able to offer enterprises. For 16 years, Computrad has been providing large organizations the very best in data and application security.

About Palo Alto Networks

Founded in 2005, Palo Alto Networks enables organizations to gain an unprecedented level of visibility and control over Internet applications flowing in and out of the network with a next generation firewall that accurately identifies applications irrespective of port, protocol, SSL encryption or evasive tactic employed.

Contacts

Computrad USA LLC
Scott Moors, +1 703 286 0940
Scott.Moors {at} computradusa(.)com