Palo Alto’s family of next-generation firewalls are expected to enable 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 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.

Karl Driesen, vice president of sales Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Palo Alto, said: 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.

Scott Moors, director of business development at Computrad USA, said: 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.