Explore Palo Alto's Self-Guided Tours

Palo Alto and Carahsoft have partnered together to provide a series of self-guided tours of Palo Alto's products and features. Similar to a live demo, the self-guided tours explores how Palo Alto's products and features applies to a specific technology vertical such as Zero Trust, DevSecOps & Cybersecurity.

 

Learn about Palo Alto's benefits, watch a short pre-recorded demo video, and download related resources. If interested in furthering the conversation, you can also schedule a live demo with a Palo Alto expert from Carahsoft. Start a Self-Guided Tour now by selecting one below: 

 

Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Self-Guided Tour

Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Self-Guided Tour

Palo Alto Networks leads the industry with intelligently integrated solutions that fortify security, streamline operations and optimize ROI. As digital transformation reshapes the cybersecurity landscape, Government agencies face evolving challenges that demand a next-generation approach to security. Traditional methods of piecing together disparate technologies from multiple vendors are no longer adequate in securing networks, clouds and hybrid workforces in modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Palo Alto Networks offers a superior solution with its platform approach, delivering simplicity, comprehensiveness, scalability and effectiveness.


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Start a self-guided demo now to learn more about how Palo Alto can elevate your cybersecurity defenses and support digital transformation.
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Next-Generation Firewall

The Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution designed to protect public sector organizations from advanced threats. Leveraging cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, this firewall offers unparalleled visibility, control, and protection across your network. By seamlessly integrating with your existing infrastructure, it empowers you to proactively defend against cyberattacks, ensure compliance with industry regulations, and safeguard sensitive citizen data.

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Benefits:

  • Advanced threats meet their match with deep learning's predictive capabilities.
  • ML-powered visibility across IoT and other connected devices
  • Maximize security and minimize downtime
  • Zero-delay signatures provide updates in seconds
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SASE

Prisma SASE is a comprehensive cloud-delivered security and networking platform designed to simplify and secure modern IT environments. By converging network security and SD-WAN functionalities, Prisma SASE provides a unified, scalable, and secure solution for organizations of all sizes. With its cloud-native architecture and global footprint, Prisma SASE enables secure and reliable access to applications and data from anywhere in the world, while reducing complexity and costs.

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Benefits:

  • Zero Trust Security for the Hybrid Workforce
  • Exceptional Network 
  • AI-Powered Operations 
  • Multi-tenant Architecture
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Prisma Cloud

Prisma Cloud is a comprehensive cloud security platform designed to protect your agency's critical data and infrastructure. It provides a unified solution for securing cloud environments, including cloud infrastructure, workloads, and applications. By continuously monitoring and assessing your cloud resources, Prisma Cloud identifies and mitigates security risks, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and industry standards. It empowers your organization to confidently adopt cloud technologies while safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining operational resilience.

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Benefits:

  • Secure by design code
  • Secures every stage of the application lifecycle
  • In-line protection to stop active attacks
  • Provides security for multi-cloud goverance and infrastructure entitlement management
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XSOAR

Cortex XSOAR is a powerful security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform designed to streamline incident response and security operations for public sector organizations. By automating routine tasks and integrating with various security tools, XSOAR significantly reduces response times and improves overall security posture. It empowers security teams to efficiently investigate and resolve security incidents, minimizing downtime and potential damage. With its customizable workflows and playbooks, XSOAR adapts to your organization's specific needs and enhances your ability to proactively defend against cyber threats.

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Benefits:

  • Provides scalability for end-users and consistent Threat Management
  • Automates IOC enrichment with Machine Learning
  • Simplifies complex or custom workflows
  • Improves SecOps efficiency 
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XSIAM

XSIAM is a cutting-edge autonomous security operations platform designed to revolutionize the way public sector organizations manage their security operations centers (SOCs). By harnessing the power of AI and automation, XSIAM empowers security teams to efficiently investigate and respond to threats, reducing response times and minimizing potential damage. This comprehensive solution streamlines workflows, automates routine tasks, and provides advanced threat detection and response capabilities, enabling organizations to proactively defend against cyberattacks and maintain a strong security posture.

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Benefits:

  • Automate threat feed analytics 
  • Provides unmatched MTTD/MTTR
  • Leverages AI to empower Security Operations Team in real-time
  • Enables Sec Ops to discovery 3rd party risk and understand Internet Landscape Intelligence
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Cortex XDR

Cortex XDR is an advanced extended detection and response (XDR) platform designed to protect public sector organizations from sophisticated cyber threats. By seamlessly integrating threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities, XDR empowers security teams to efficiently identify, analyze, and neutralize attacks across various endpoints and cloud environments. With its advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, XDR automatically detects and prioritizes threats, reduces manual effort, and accelerates incident response times. This comprehensive solution enhances your organization's security posture and helps mitigate risks associated with evolving cyber threats.

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Benefits:

  • Provides security teams with up-to-date threat analytics and real time protection 
  • Offers a light-weight, agent based solution that maps to mitre-attack framework
  • Enables soc-in-box user experience with root-cause analysis through an interactive graphical interfaces
  • Drastically improves mean time to re-mediate and mean time to detect 

Palo Alto's Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Enhance Risk Posture: Real-time prevention of zero-day threats through collective intelligence sharing.
  • Simplify Security: Highly scalable cyber infrastructure without the need for additional resources.
  • Boost Efficiency with Automation: Accelerate threat identification and response times by leveraging cross-system data.
Palo Alto Networks DevSecOps Self-Guided Tour

Palo Alto Networks DevSecOps Self-Guided Tour

Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Cloud protects applications from code to cloud, reducing risks and preventing breaches. Prisma Cloud is trusted by thousands of customers to enable secure innovation. By providing developers with application runtime insights, Prisma Cloud is helping to prevent misconfigurations from entering production. Developers can use application context to identify risks, fast-track root cause analysis and implement remediation measures. Runtime protection uncovers threats and protects applications against irregularities, malware and guards against zero-day attacks.


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Start a self-guided demo now to learn how to reduce risk and prevent breaches across the application lifecycle.
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Strata - Network Security Platform

The Strata Networks Security Platform is built for Zero Trust and powered by AI. Strata monitors, analyzes, and prevents threats in real time with less complexity, enabling growth and innovation for your organization. Strata will allow you to defend threats at speed and scale, as well as consolidate hardware, software, and SASE on one platform.

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Benefits:

  • Fight Fragmentation
  • Thwart Threats
  • Cut Complexity
  • Implement AI
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Prisma Cloud

The cloud is where businesses speed up innovation and transform with AI - and it needs to be sure. With Prisma Cloud, the industry's leading Code to Cloud platform your organization can prevent application risk, stop broad attacks, and protect crown jewels with threat data and advanced ML. Prisma Cloud can simplify things and secure apps from design to runtime.

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Benefits:

  • Secure every stage of the application lifecycle
  • Prioritize and eliminate risks across the cloud
  • Developer-friendly code
  • Block advanced attacks in real time
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Cortex XSOAR

Putting humans at the front lines of incident response is no longer sustainable. Modern SOCs are incorporating automation into their incident response workflows to maximize operational efficiency. Cortex XSOAR allows your organization to supercharge incident response across your SOC, and reduce the time spent on incidents by 90%.

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Benefits:

  • Reduce alert noise and surface critical incidents
  • Eliminate repetitive, manual tasks
  • Facilitate analyst investigation and collaboration
  • Map external threats to SOC incidents
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Cortex XDR

Stop attacks with full visibility and analytics with Cortex XDR. With proven endpoint protection, Cortex XDR blocks advanced malware and threats with behavioral threat protection, AI, and cloud-based analysis. Additionally, Cortex XDR uses machine learning to profile behavior and detect anomalies allowing you to spot adversaries attempting to blend in with legitimate users.

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Benefits:

  • ML-driven threat detection
  • Incident management
  • Flexible response
  • Extended threat hunting
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Cortex Xpanse

Xpanse is an active attack surface management solution that helps your organization actively discover, learn about, and respond to unknown risks in all connected systems and exposed services. With Cortex Xpanse, resolve unknown exposures with automation.

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Benefits:

  • Active discovery
  • Prevent ransomware
  • Vulnerability testing
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Cortex XSIAM

Cortex XSIAM is empowers seamless security operations with AI. Rethink and transform your DevSecOps, combine the capabilities, and connect all of your data sources and move to a machine-led human-empowered SOC. With Cortex XSIAM, your organization can consolidate all of its data and tools into a single AI-driven platform, simplify security operations, and accelerate remediation.

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Benefits:

  • AI-Driven Analytics
  • Embedded Automation
  • User Behavior Analytics
  • Incident Management

Palo Alto Networks’ Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Risk Prevention – Identify/fix misconfigurations in IaC templates, harden CI/CD pipelines and address open source vulnerabilities with context-aware prioritization.
  • Visibility & Control – Monitor posture by scanning hosts, containers and Kubernetes to protect APIs across cloud-native applications and maintain compliance.
  • Runtime Protection – Secure cloud VMs, containers and Kubernetes and protect web applications and APIs across multicloud environments.
Palo Alto Zero Trust Self-Guided Tour

Palo Alto Zero Trust Self-Guided Tour

Palo Alto Networks is a leader in cybersecurity solutions, offering comprehensive Zero Trust capabilities that extend beyond narrow technologies to encompass the full ecosystem of controls crucial for modern protection, including network, endpoint, cloud, application, IoT and identity management. Palo Alto Networks’ approach to Zero Trust emphasizes simplicity and scalability, enabling agencies to implement actionable strategies without unnecessary complexity. By embracing the concept of “trust nothing, validate everything,” Palo Alto Networks empowers enterprises to enhance security outcomes while simplifying infrastructure and reducing operational costs.


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Start a self-guided demo now to learn more about comprehensive security, simplicity and cost efficiency.
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Next Generation Firewall

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall enforces zero trust principles by rigorously inspecting all traffic, regardless of port or protocol, ensuring continuous verification of users and devices. It micro-segments the network, limiting lateral movement and minimizing the blast radius of potential breaches. By integrating granular application control and threat prevention, it allows only known good traffic, effectively denying all else. This proactive approach builds a foundation of least privilege and explicit verification for a robust zero trust architecture.

Benefits: 

  • Continuous Verification: Always verifying users, devices, and apps for every connection.
  • Micro-segmentation: Limiting breach impact with granular control.
  • Implicit Deny: Blocking all unverified activity proactively.
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Prisma Cloud

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud embraces zero trust in the cloud by continuously assessing the security posture of multi-cloud environments and workloads. It enforces granular, identity-based access controls, ensuring only authorized entities can interact with specific resources. By providing comprehensive visibility and proactive threat detection, it operates on the principle of "assume breach" across the cloud landscape. This enables organizations to build and maintain a resilient cloud security framework rooted in least privilege and ongoing validation.

Benefits: 

  • Continuous Cloud Validation: Always verifying cloud identities and configurations.
  • Proactive Cloud Hardening: Enforcing least privilege in the cloud from the start.
  • Identity-Centric Cloud Access: Granting resource access based on verified identity, not just network location.
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SASE

Palo Alto Networks SASE integrates networking and security functions to deliver a holistic zero trust architecture for the distributed workforce. It ensures continuous verification of users and devices, regardless of location, before granting access to applications and data. By implementing granular access controls and advanced threat prevention at the cloud edge, it minimizes the attack surface and prevents lateral movement. This converged approach establishes a secure and seamless experience built on the core principles of least privilege and explicit trust validation for all connections.

Benefits: 

  • Location-Agnostic Verification: Consistently verifies users and devices, wherever they connect
  • Cloud-Delivered Trust Enforcement: Applies granular controls and threat prevention at the SASE cloud edge.
  • Seamless Zero Trust Experience: Provides secure access without compromising user productivity.

Palo Alto's Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Enhanced Security: Removes implicit trust and validates all digital interactions, reducing risk and complexity while enhancing overall security resilience.
  • Simplified Infrastructure: Adopting Zero Trust enables agencies to consolidate multiple security tools into a unified control, aligning with digital transformation goals and reducing operational overhead.
  • Cost Efficiency: By deploying a comprehensive Zero Trust solution, agencies can streamline security operations, lowering deployment and operational costs while optimizing effectiveness and management efficiency.