PA-400 Series Highlights

• World’s first ML-Powered NGFW

• Ten-time Leader in the Gartner® Magic
The Palo Alto Networks PA-400 Series, comprising
Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls
the PA-460, ­PA-450, PA-440, and PA-410, brings
• Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise
ML-Powered NGFW capabilities to ­distributed Firewalls, Q3 2020
enterprise branch o
­ ffices, retail locations, and • Highest Security Effectiveness score in the
midsize ­businesses. 2019 NSS Labs NGFW Test Report, with
100% of evasions blocked
The world’s first ML-Powered Next-Generation • Spans a range of performance needs for the
Firewall (NGFW) enables you to prevent unknown distributed enterprise with a broad lineup

threats, see and secure everything—­including the • Offers security in a desktop form factor
Internet of Things (IoT)—and reduce errors with • Extends visibility and security to all devices,
including unmanaged IoT devices, without the
automatic policy recommendations.
need to deploy additional sensors
• Supports high availability with active/active
and active/passive modes
• Delivers predictable performance with security
services
• Features a silent, fanless design with an optional
redundant power supply for branch and home
offices
• Simplifies deployment of large numbers of firewalls
with optional Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
• Supports centralized administration with
Panorama™ network security management

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The controlling element of the PA-400 Series is PAN-OS, the same software that runs all Palo Alto
Networks NGFWs. PAN-OS® natively classifies all traffic, inclusive of applications, threats, and
content, and then ties that traffic to the user regardless of location or device type. The application,
content, and user—in other words, the elements that run your business—then serve as the basis of
your security policies, resulting in improved security posture and reduced i­ ncident response times.

Key Security and Connectivity Features

ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall
• Embeds machine learning (ML) in the core of the firewall to provide inline signatureless attack
prevention for file-based attacks while identifying and immediately stopping never-before-seen
phishing attempts.
• Leverages cloud-based ML processes to push zero-delay signatures and instructions back to the
NGFW.
• Uses behavioral analysis to detect IoT devices and make policy recommendations as part of a
cloud-delivered and natively integrated service on the NGFW.
• Automates policy recommendations that save time and ­reduce the chance of human error.

Identifies and Categorizes All Applications, on All Ports, All the Time, with Full
Layer 7 Inspection
• Identifies the applications traversing your network ­irrespective of port, protocol, evasive tech-
niques, or ­encryption (TLS/SSL); in addition, automatically discovers and controls new applications
to keep pace with the SaaS explosion with a SaaS Security subscription.
• Uses the application, not the port, as the basis for all your safe enablement policy decisions: allow,
deny, schedule, inspect, and apply traffic-shaping.
• Offers the ability to create custom App-ID™ tags for proprietary applications or request App-ID
development for new applications from Palo Alto Networks.
• Identifies all payload data within an application (e.g., files and data patterns) to block malicious
files and thwart exfiltration attempts.
• Creates standard and customized application usage ­reports, including software-as-a-service (SaaS)
reports that ­provide insight into all sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS traffic on your network.
• Enables safe migration of legacy Layer 4 rule sets to ­App-ID-based rules with built-in Policy Opti-
mizer, giving you a rule set that is more secure and easier to manage.
• Check out the App-ID Tech Brief for more information.

Enforces Security for Users at Any Location, on Any Device, While Adapting
Policy Based on User Activity
• Enables visibility, security policies, reporting, and forensics based on users and groups—not just IP
addresses.
• Easily integrates with a wide range of repositories to leverage user information: wireless LAN con-
trollers, VPNs, ­directory servers, SIEMs, proxies, and more.
• Allows you to define Dynamic User Groups (DUGs) on the firewall to take time-bound security ac-
tions without waiting for changes to be applied to user directories.
• Applies consistent policies irrespective of users’ locations (office, home, travel, etc.) and devices
(iOS and Android® mobile devices, macOS®, Windows®, Linux desktops, laptops; Citrix and Micro-
soft VDI and Terminal Servers).
• Prevents corporate credentials from leaking to third-party websites and prevents reuse of stolen
credentials by ­enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) at the network layer for any application
without any application changes.
• Provides dynamic security actions based on user behavior to restrict suspicious or malicious users.
• Consistently authenticates and authorizes your users, regardless of their location and where user
identity stores live, to quickly move toward a Zero Trust security posture with Cloud Identity En-
gine—an entirely new cloud-based architecture for identity-based security. Check out the Cloud
Identity Engine Solution Brief for more information.

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Prevents Malicious Activity Concealed in ­Encrypted Traffic
• Inspects and applies policy to TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic, both inbound and outbound, including
for traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2.
• Offers rich visibility into TLS traffic, such as amount of encrypted traffic, TLS/SSL versions, cipher
suites, and more, without decrypting.
• Enables control over use of legacy TLS protocols, insecure ciphers, and misconfigured certificates
to mitigate risks.
• Facilitates easy deployment of decryption and lets you use built-in logs to troubleshoot issues, such
as applications with pinned certificates.
• Lets you enable or disable decryption flexibly based on URL category, source and destination zone,
address, user, user group, device, and port, for privacy and compliance purposes.
• Allows you to create a copy of decrypted traffic from the firewall (i.e., decryption mirroring) and
send it to traffic collection tools for forensics, historical purposes, or data loss prevention (DLP).
• Allows you to intelligently forward all traffic (decrypted TLS, non-decrypted TLS, and non-TLS) to
third-party security tools with Network Packet Broker, optimize your network performance, and
reduce operating expenses.
• Refer to this decryption white paper to learn where, when, and how to decrypt to prevent threats
and secure your business.

Offers Centralized Management and Visibility

• Benefits from centralized management, configuration, and visibility for multiple distributed Palo
Alto Networks NGFWs (irrespective of location or scale) through Panorama network security man-
agement, in one unified user interface.
• Streamlines configuration sharing through Panorama with templates and device groups and scales log
collection as logging needs increase. PA-410, PA-440, PA-450, PA-460 allow export session logs to
Panorama and Cortex® Data Lake. PA-440, PA-450, and PA-460 also support on box session logging.
• Enables users, through the Application Command Center (ACC), to obtain deep visibility and com-
prehensive insights into network traffic and threats.

Maximize Your Security Investment and Prevent Business Disruption with AIOps
• AIOps for NGFW delivers continuous best practice recommendations customized to your unique
deployment to strengthen your security posture and get the most out of your security investment.
• Intelligently predicts firewall health, performance, and capacity problems based on ML powered by
advanced telemetry data. It also provides actionable insights to resolve the predicted disruptions.

Detect and Prevent Advanced Threats with Cloud-Delivered Security Services

Today’s sophisticated cyberattacks can spawn 45,000 variants in 30 minutes using multiple threat
vectors and advanced techniques to deliver malicious payloads. Traditional siloed security causes
challenges for organizations by introducing security gaps, increasing overhead for security teams,
and hindering business productivity with inconsistent access and visibility.
Seamlessly integrated with our industry-leading NGFWs, our cloud-delivered security services use the
network effect of 80,000 customers to instantly coordinate intelligence and protect against all threats
across all vectors. Eliminate coverage gaps across your locations and take advantage of best-in-class
security delivered consistently in a platform to stay safe from even the most advanced and evasive threats.
• Advanced Threat Prevention: Stop known exploits, malware, malicious URLs, spyware, and com-
mand and control (C2) with 96% prevention of web-based Cobalt Strike C2 and 48% more unknown
C2 detected than the industry’s leading intrusion prevention (IPS) solution.
• WildFire® malware prevention: Ensure files are safe by automatically detecting and preventing unknown
malware 180x faster with the industry’s largest threat intelligence and malware prevention engine.
• Advanced URL Filtering: Enable safe access to the internet with the industry’s first real-time preven-
tion of known and unknown websites, stopping 76% of malicious URLs 24 hours before other vendors.
• DNS Security: Gain 40% more DNS-attack coverage and disrupt the 80% of attacks that use DNS for
command and control and data theft, without requiring any changes to your infrastructure.
• Enterprise DLP: Minimize risk of a data breach, stop out-of-policy data transfers, and enable com-
pliance consistently across your enterprise, with 2x greater coverage of any cloud-delivered enter-
prise DLP.

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• SaaS Security: Stay ahead of the SaaS explosion with the industry’s only Next-Generation CASB to
automatically see and secure all apps across all protocols.
• IoT Security: Safeguard every “thing” and implement Zero Trust device security 20x faster, with the
industry’s smartest security for smart devices.

Enables SD-WAN Functionality

• Allows you to easily adopt SD-WAN by simply enabling it on your existing firewalls.
• Enables you to safely implement SD-WAN, which is natively integrated with our industry-leading
security.
• Delivers an exceptional end-user experience by minimizing latency, jitter, and packet loss.

Delivers a Unique Approach to Packet Processing with Single-Pass Architecture

• Performs networking, policy lookup, application and decoding, and signature matching—for all
threats and content—in a single pass. This significantly reduces the amount of processing over-
head required to perform multiple functions in one security device.
• Avoids introducing latency by scanning traffic for all signatures in a single pass, using stream-
based, uniform signature matching.
• Enables consistent and predictable performance when security subscriptions are enabled.
(In table 1, “Threat Prevention throughput” is measured with multiple subscriptions enabled.)

Table 1: PA-400 Series Performance and Capacities

PA-460 PA-450 PA-440 PA-410
Firewall throughput (HTTP/appmix) a
5.1/4.4 Gbps 3.6/3.0 Gbps 2.9/2.2 Gbps 1.6/1.2 Gbps
Threat Prevention throughput (HTTP/appmix) b
2.1/2.4 Gbps 1.4/1.6 Gbps 0.9/1.0 Gbps 0.6/0.685 Gbps
IPsec VPN throughput c
3.0 Gbps 2.2 Gbps 1.7 Gbps 0.93 Gbps
Max sessions 400,000 300,000 200,000 64,000
New sessions per secondd 73,000 51,000 37,000 12,000
Note: Results were measured on PAN-OS 10.2.
a Firewall throughput is measured with App-ID and logging enabled, utilizing 64 KB HTTP/appmix transactions.
b Threat Prevention throughput is measured with App-ID, IPS, antivirus, anti-spyware, WildFire, DNS Security, file blocking, and logging enabled, utilizing 64 KB HTTP/appmix transactions.
c IPsec VPN throughput is measured with 64 KB HTTP transactions and logging enabled.
d New sessions per second is measured with application-override, utilizing 1 byte HTTP transactions.

Table 2: PA-400 Series Networking Features

Interface Modes
L2, L3, tap, virtual wire (transparent mode)
Routing
OSPFv2/v3 with graceful restart, BGP with graceful restart, RIP, static routing
Policy-based forwarding
Point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)
Multicast: PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, IGMP v1, v2, and v3
SD-WAN
Path quality measurement (jitter, packet loss, latency)
Initial path selection (PBF)
Dynamic path change
IPv6
L2, L3, tap, virtual wire (transparent mode)
Features: App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, WildFire, and SSL Decryption
SLAAC

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 Table 2: PA-400 Series Networking Features (continued)
IPsec VPN
Key exchange: manual key, IKEv1 and IKEv2 ­(pre-shared key, certificate-based authentication)
Encryption: 3DES, AES (128-bit, 192-bit, 256-bit)
Authentication: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
VLANs
802.1Q VLAN tags per device/per interface: 4,094/4,094

Table 3: PA-400 Series Hardware Specifications

I/O

PA-460, PA-450, PA-440: 10/100/1000 (8) RJ45

PA-410: 10/100/1000 (7) RJ45

Management I/O

PA-460, PA-450, PA-440: 10/100/1000 out-of-band management port (1), RJ45 console port (1), USB port (2), Micro USB console port (1)
PA-410: 10/100/1000 out-of-band management port (1), RJ45 console port (1), USB port (2)

Storage Capacity
PA-460, PA-450, PA-440: 128 GB eMMC
PA-410: 64 GB eMMC
Power Supply (Avg/Max Power Consumption)
PA-460, PA-450: 33/41 W
PA-440: 29/34 W
PA-410: 17/18 W
Max BTU/hr
PA-460, PA-450: 141
PA-440: 117
PA-410: 78
Input Voltage (Input Frequency)
100-240 VAC (50-60 Hz)
Max Current Consumption
PA-460, PA-450: 3.4 A @ 12 VDC
PA-440: 2.9 A @ 12 VDC
PA-410: 1.5 A @ 12 VDC
Max Inrush Current
PA-460, PA-450: 4.2 A
PA-440: 3.3 A
PA-410: 2.1 A
Dimensions
PA-460, PA-450, PA-440: 1.74" H x 8.83" D x 8.07" W
PA-410: 1.63" H x 6.42" D x 9.53" W

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 Table 3: PA-400 Series Hardware Specifications (continued)
Weight (Standalone Device/As Shipped)
PA-460, PA-450, PA-440: 5.0 lbs/7.8 lbs
PA-410: 3.1 lbs/5.9 lbs
Safety
cTUVus, CB
EMI
FCC Class B, CE Class B, VCCI Class B
Certifications
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Environment
Operating temperature: 32° to 104° F, 0° to 40° C
Non-operating temperature: -4° to 158° F, -20° to 70° C
Passive cooling

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