{"id":4444,"date":"2014-01-14T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:27:29","slug":"palo-alto-networks-releases-pan-os-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/palo-alto-networks-releases-pan-os-6-0\/","title":{"rendered":"PAN-OS 6.0: Raising the Bar in the Fight Against Advanced Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Palo Alto Networks announced the availability of PAN-OS 6.0<\/a>, and with it another major milestone in our commitment to defend enterprises, service providers and governments from the most advanced cyber threats.\u00a0 At the center of our enterprise security strategy is an innovative platform, powered by PAN-OS, that provides breakthrough protection from the data center to the network perimeter, as well as the distributed enterprise. With over 60 new features<\/a> now available in this release there is quite literally something for everyone.<\/p>\n

As you read through the feature overview you\u2019ll see two dominant themes emerge.\u00a0 First, we continue to invest heavily in exposing new evasion tactics used by attackers to avoid detection. A clear example can be seen with the enhancements made to WildFire<\/a>, which protects our customers from unknown malware, and zero-day exploits across nearly 400 different applications. Detecting these threats requires that you inspect all traffic \u2013 regardless of the port it\u2019s transmitting through, the protocol used, or whether it\u2019s encrypted, which we estimate constitutes as much as 20-30% of enterprise traffic today.<\/p>\n

Second, it should go without saying that the intelligence gathered during detection must be closely integrated with your defenses and shared globally, such that previously unknown attack patterns can never be repeated.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n