PA-850

PA-800 Series Highlights

• World’s first ML-Powered NGFW
Palo Alto Networks PA-800 Series­­­­
• Eleven-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
ML-Powered NGFWs, comprising the P
­ A-820 for Network Firewalls
and PA-850, are designed to provide secure • Leader in the Forrester Wave: Enterprise
connectivity for ­organizations’ branch offices Firewalls, Q4 2022

as well as midsize businesses. • Highest Security Effectiveness score in the 2019

NSS Labs NGFW Test Report, with 100% of
evasions blocked
• Extends visibility and security to all devices,
including unmanaged IoT devices, without the
need to deploy additional sensors
• Supports high availability with active/active and
active/passive modes
• Delivers predictable performance with security
services
• Simplifies deployment of large numbers of
firewalls with optional Zero Touch Provisioning
(ZTP)
• Supports centralized administration with
Panorama network security management
• Maximizes security investments and prevents
business disruptions with AIOps

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The controlling element of the PA-800 Series is PAN-OS, the same software that runs all Palo Alto
Networks Next-­Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). PAN-OS natively classifies all traffic, i­ nclusive
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 incident response time.

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 internet of things (IoT) devices and make policy recommendations;
cloud-­delivered and natively ­integrated service on the NGFW.
• Automates policy recommendations that save time and r­ educe 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 techniques,
or encryption (TLS/SSL).
• Automatically discovers and controls new applications to keep pace with the SaaS explosion with
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 the application (e.g., files and data patterns) to block malicious files
and thwart data 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
­Optimizer, 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
­controllers, VPNs, d
­ irectory servers, SIEMs, proxies, and more.
• Allows you to define Dynamic User Groups (DUGs) on the firewall to take time-bound security actions
without waiting for changes to be applied to user directories.
• Applies consistent policies irrespective of users’ locations (office, home, travel, etc.) and d
­ evices
(iOS and Android mobile devices, macOS, Windows, Linux desktops, laptops; Citrix and M ­ icrosoft
VDI and Terminal Servers).
• Prevents corporate credentials from leaking to third-party websites and prevents reuse of stolen
credentials by enabling multifactor 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 location and where user i­ dentity
stores live, to move quickly toward a Zero Trust security posture with Cloud Identity Engine—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 regulatory 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, nondecrypted 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 whitepaper 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 N ­ GFWs (irrespective of location or scale) through Panorama n
­ etwork security management, in
one unified user interface.
• Streamlines configuration sharing through Panorama with templates and device groups, and scales
log collection as logging needs increase.
• Enables users, through the Application Command Center (ACC), to obtain deep visibility and compre-
hensive 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 de-
ployment 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.

Detects and Prevents 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. Services include:
• Advanced Threat Prevention: Stop known exploits, malware, spyware, and command-and-­control
(C2) threats, while utilizing industry-first prevention of zero-day attacks—prevent 60% more
unknown injection attacks and 48% more highly evasive command-and-control traffic than
­traditional IPS solutions.
• Advanced WildFire: Ensure files are safe by automatically preventing known, unknown, and highly eva-
sive malware 60X faster with the industry’s largest threat intelligence and malware prevention engine.
• Advanced URL Filtering: Ensure safe access to the internet and prevent 40% more web-based a­ ttacks
with the industry’s first real-time prevention of known and unknown threats, stopping 88% of
­malicious URLs at least 48 hours before other vendors.
• DNS Security: Gain 40% more threat coverage and stop 85% of malware that abuses DNS for ­command
and control and data theft, without requiring changes to your infrastructure.
• Enterprise DLP: Minimize risk of a data breach, stop out-of-policy data transfers, and enable compliance
consistently across your enterprise, with 2X greater coverage of any cloud-delivered enterprise 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.

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 overhead
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.)

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.

Table 1: PA-800 Series Performance and Capacities

PA-820 PA-850

Firewall throughput (HTTP/appmix)* 1.6/1.5 Gbps 2.0/1.9 Gbps

Threat Prevention throughput (HTTP/appmix)† 790/840 Mbps 1.0/1.0 Gbps

IPsec VPN throughput‡ 1.4 Gbps 1.8 Gbps

Max concurrent sessions§ 128,000 192,000

New sessions per second|| 8,100 13,100

Note: Results were measured on PAN-OS 11.0.

* Firewall throughput is measured with App-ID and logging enabled, using 64 KB HTTP/appmix transactions.
† Threat Prevention throughput is measured with App-ID, IPS, ­antivirus, antispyware, WildFire, DNS Security, file blocking, and logging enabled,
utilizing 64 KB HTTP/­appmix transactions.
‡ IPsec VPN throughput is measured with 64 KB HTTP transactions and logging e
­ nabled.
§ Max concurrent sessions are measured utilizing HTTP transactions.
|| New sessions per second is measured with application override u
­ tilizing 1 byte HTTP transactions.

PA-800 Series ML-Powered NGFWs support a wide range of networking features that enable you to
more easily integrate our security features into your existing network.

Table 2: PA-800 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

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 Table 2: PA-800 Series Networking Features (continued)

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

IPsec and SSL VPN

Key exchange: manual key, IKEv1, and IKEv2 (preshared key, ­certificate-based authentication)

Encryption: 3des, AES (128-bit, 192-bit, 256-bit)

Authentication: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512

GlobalProtect Large Scale VPN for simplified configuration and management*

Secure access over IPsec and SSL VPN tunnels using GlobalProtect Gateway and Portals*

VLANs

802.1Q VLAN tags per device/per interface: 4,094/4,094

Aggregate interfaces (802.3ad), LACP

Network Address Translation

NAT modes (IPv4): static IP, Dynamic IP, Dynamic IP and Port (port address translation)

NAT64, NPTv6

Additional NAT features: Dynamic IP reservation, tunable Dynamic IP and Port oversubscription

High Availability

Modes: active/active, active/passive

Failure detection: path monitoring, interface monitoring

Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

Available with -ZTP SKUs (PA-220-ZTP)

Requires Panorama 9.1.3 or higher

* Requires GlobalProtect License.

Table 3: PA-800 Series Hardware Specifications

I/O

PA-820: 10/100/1000 (4), Gigabit SFP (8)

PA-850: 10/100/1000 (4), Gigabit SFP (8) or
PA-850: 10/100/1000 (4), Gigabit SFP (4), 10 Gigabit SFP+ (4)

Management I/O

10/100/1000 out-of-band management port (1)

10/100/1000 high availability (2)
RJ-45 console port (1)
USB port (1)
Micro USB console port (1)

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 Table 3: PA-800 Series Hardware Specifications (continued)
Storage Capacity

240 GB SSD

Power Supply

PA-820: Fixed AC 200 W power supply (1)

PA-850: AC 450 W power supplies (2); one is redundant

Power Consumption

Maximum: PA-820: 120 W; PA-850: 240 W

Average: PA-820: 41 W; PA-850: 64 W

Max BTU/hr

256

Input Voltage (Input Frequency)

100–240 VAC (50–60 Hz)

Max Current Consumption

PA-820: 1.0 A @ 100 VAC, 0.5 A @ 240 VAC

PA-850: 2.0 A @ 100 VAC, 1.0 A @ 240 VAC

Max Inrush Current

PA-820: 0.4 A @ 230 VAC, 0.96 A @ 120 VAC

PA-850: 1.0 A @ 230 VAC, 1.84 A @ 120 VAC

Rack Mount (Dimensions)

PA-820: 1U, 19” standard rack (1.75” H x 14” D x 17.125” W)

PA-850: 1U, 19” standard rack (1.75” H x 14.5” D x 17.125” W

Weight (Standalone Device/As Shipped)

PA-820: 11 lbs / 18 lbs

PA-850: 13.5 lbs / 21.5 lbs

Safety

cTUVus, CB

EMI

FCC Class A, CE Class A, VCCI Class A

Certifications

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Environment

Operating temperature: 32°F to 104°F, 0°C to 40°C

Nonoperating temperature: -4°F to 158°F, -20°C to 70°C

Airflow

Front to back

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