Software firewalls: unified protection across clouds and AI
Secure workloads everywhere with the industry’s first automated multicloud security fabric.
Secure your cloud and AI transformation
As workloads spread across public clouds, private cloud and Kubernetes clusters, managing separate controls in each environment leads to inconsistency and blind spots. AI workloads add sudden, high traffic spikes that strain traditional security architectures.
Palo Alto Networks software firewalls bring the same PAN-OS and security services as physical NGFWs to cloud and virtual environments. They interconnect cloud environments automatically, apply consistent controls across public and private clouds and inspect lateral movement inside the network at Layer 7.
Key capabilities
Unify multicloud
Interconnect cloud environments automatically and apply consistent controls across public and private clouds.
Scale for AI workloads
Adapt to dynamic AI traffic with high-performance, elastic security and no bottlenecks.
Secure Kubernetes traffic
Full visibility into container environments; block attacks before critical workloads are hit.
Eliminate internal blind spots
Stop lateral threats by inspecting east-west traffic at Layer 7 without re-architecting the network.
VM-Series
The industry’s leading virtual firewall for any cloud or virtualised environment.
Cloud NGFW for AWS and Azure
Cloud-native Firewall-as-a-Service with no infrastructure or patching to manage.
Which software firewall?
- VM-Series: virtual NGFW for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix and public clouds such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
- CN-Series: containerised NGFW for Kubernetes and container environments.
- Cloud NGFW for AWS / Azure: a firewall managed by Palo Alto Networks, delivered as a native cloud provider service.
- Prisma AIRS: runtime protection for LLM-powered AI apps, models and data.
software firewalls with Albisec
For Palo Alto Networks network security projects we are your single point of contact, from sales and deployment to migration and 24/7 support.
- The right model and subscriptions based on throughput, sessions and SSL decryption needs
- Best-practice deployment, HA and central management (Panorama / Strata Cloud Manager)
- Rule, NAT and VPN migration from other vendors
- Periodic health checks, BPA reports and PAN-OS version management
Official product page:paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/software-firewalls
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between VM-Series and Cloud NGFW?
VM-Series is an NGFW you run and manage as a virtual machine in any environment. Cloud NGFW is delivered as a service in AWS or Azure, with infrastructure, scaling and patching managed by Palo Alto Networks.
How are software firewalls licensed?
Palo Alto Networks software firewalls use flexible credit-based licensing; credits can be used across different models and security services. We estimate your needs and recommend the right package.
Talk to our experts about your Palo Alto Networks project
A new deployment, a firewall migration or a support contract: tell us what you need and we will map out the right path with a free initial assessment.