<STRONG>Single Pass Software:

Within the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall, the Palo Alto Networks Single Pass software is meant to achieve two critical purposes. The single-pass software, for starters, only conducts operations once per packet. Networking functions, policy lookup, application identification and decoding, and signature matching for all THREATS and content are all executed once when a packet is processed. The amount of processing overhead required to conduct numerous functions in a single security device is greatly reduced as a result of this. Second, Palo Alto Networks' Single Pass software's content scanning step is stream-based and uses uniform signature matching to detect and prevent threats.

With all security mechanisms engaged, our Single Pass traffic processing offers exceptionally fast throughput and minimal latency. It also comes with a single, fully integrated policy that simplifies and simplifies enterprise network security management.

Parallel Processing Hardware:

Hardware is the important component of Palo Alto Networks SP3 Architecture. Parallel Processing hardware is used in Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls to ensure that the Single Pass software operates quickly. Palo Alto Networks developers FIRST created data and control planes that were independent. Due to the separation of data and control planes, the strong utilisation of one will not negatively INFLUENCE the other. For example, an administrator may be running an extremely processor-intensive report while processing packets would be fully unaffected.

The EMPLOYMENT of discrete, specialised processing groups that work in harmony to accomplish numerous vital operations is the second important aspect of the Parallel Processing hardware.

• Routing, flow lookup, statistics counting, NAT, and other network-specific activities are all executed on network-specific hardware.
• A multi-core security engine with hardware acceleration for encryption, decryption, and decompression handles User-ID, App-ID, and policy.
• The content-ID content analysis employs a unique, dedicated content scanning engine.
• Without touching the data processing hardware, a dedicated management processor (with dedicated disc and RAM) handles configuration management, logging, and reporting on the controlplane.