Palo Alto Nebula PAN-OS has a competitive Zero-Day Protection

Palo Alto Networks announced Nebula, the latest upgrade of its PAN-OS software that finds evasive new attacks that can cripple organizations and stop them in their tracks.

Nebula, PAN-OS version 10.2, detects so-called zero-day or unknown threats that have grown and evolved in the digital area, those that are invisible to even the latest security technologies.

Nebula collects, analyses and interprets potential zero-day threats using deep learning in real time, a claimed industry first. The use of deep learning is said to result in six times faster prevention with 48% more evasive threats detected, surpassing anything previously possible.

The release also introduces new AI operations while enhancing advanced threat prevention, IoT domain name services and URL-related security services. Nebula adds inline deep learning and harnesses the processing power of the cloud to provide enhanced protection.

Features in the release include a new IPS that brings security analysis from “offline” to “in-line” using cloud compute for AI and deep learning techniques, without sacrificing performance. The new AIOps uses machine learning to predict up to 51% of disruptions to next-generation firewalls before they affect the firewalls.

On the IoT security, Nebula provides complete IT and IoT asset visibility in one platform with extended detection and response integration. For DNS security, the new release extends protection for the latest DNS-layer attack techniques, including strategically aged domains.

With URL filtering, Nebula adds prevention of new, highly evasive phishing attacks, ransomware, and other web-based attacks through deep learning-powered analysis of web traffic, including web payload content, in real time and inline.Palo Alto Networks has also introduced a new PA-3400 & PA-5400 Series ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls.