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Data Center Security
Unified security for hybrid data center environments
As infrastructure spans on-premises data centers and public clouds, security must follow. A consistent policy framework across physical and virtual firewalls protects workloads regardless of location.
Request information View infographicHybrid infrastructure is standard. Security coverage should be too.
Organizations expanding beyond traditional data centers into private and public clouds need security that spans every environment without gaps or policy inconsistencies.
Embracing new forms of infrastructure is a key part of digitization as enterprises scale beyond existing footprints to build hybrid environments. Securing these environments requires visibility, segmentation, and automated threat response that works consistently across every deployment.
- Consistent policy enforcement: Apply the same security policies across on-premises and cloud workloads
- Unified management: Centralized configuration, auditing, and reporting across all firewall form factors
- Hardware, virtual, and containerized: Next-generation firewalls in every form factor for every deployment model
Three use cases for securing a hybrid data center
Each addresses a distinct operational requirement: visibility, segmentation, and automated response.
Complete visibility
Gain full insight into user, device, network, and application activity across all on-premises data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. Contextual awareness maps directly to business requirements and risk posture.
Granular segmentation
Prevent lateral movement inside the data center and across multicloud environments by applying granular access control to north-south and east-west traffic using physical and virtual firewalls.
Automated threat prevention
Detect threats and malicious activity, block in real time, and automatically isolate compromised hosts to minimize business disruption and prevent data loss.
Featured products
Purpose-built for hybrid data center security
Two platform components address the core requirements of data center security: consistent enforcement and centralized management.
ML-powered next-generation firewalls
Consistent security across hybrid cloud environments regardless of workload type or network architecture. Next-generation firewalls across all form factors — hardware, virtual, and containerized — provide deep visibility and security enforcement on-premises, in the data center, and across public clouds.
- Inline deep learning for zero-day threat prevention
- Single-pass architecture for predictable performance
- Same PAN-OS across hardware, VM-Series, and CN-Series
Panorama
Centralized firewall management that simplifies configuration, auditing, and reporting. A single solution manages all firewall form factors and Cloud-Delivered Security Services, enforcing a consistent policy model across on-premises deployments and multiple clouds.
- Unified policy management across all form factors
- Centralized logging, auditing, and compliance reporting
- Consistent enforcement across on-prem and multicloud
Firewall form factors for every data center model
Physical, virtual, and containerized firewalls run the same PAN-OS software, ensuring identical security capabilities across every deployment.
Hardware firewalls
Purpose-built appliances for on-premises data centers, from the PA-5400 Series to the PA-7500 with over 1.5 Tbps of App-ID performance.
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VM-Series virtual NGFW for private and public cloud environments including VMware, KVM, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.
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CN-Series container-native firewall for Kubernetes environments, providing Layer 7 visibility and threat prevention across container traffic.
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