Phoenix Software Ltd

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls and Security Operating Platform is the industry’s most advanced prevention solution for highly evasive zero-day malware/exploits. Our service uses unique approaches that combine dynamic/static analysis, innovative machine learning (AI) techniques, and an advanced analysis environment to detect and prevent evasive cyber threats.

Features

• App-ID:Complete network visibility of all applications regardless of port
• User-ID:Visibility of all users and groups for policy
• Content-ID:identify files moving through the network
• Advanced Threat Prevention:Prevent knownthreats, detect unknown C2 traffic
• WildFire:Identification and analysis of unknown malware
• Advanced URL Filtering:URLfiltering with ML-powered malware detection capabilities
• DNS Security:detection of threats and anomalies in DNS traffic
• GlobalProtect:Extend NGFW policies to remote endpoints
• Available as hardware, VMs- private or multiple public clouds
• Built for automation, scalability and reliability at all times

Benefits

• Reduce your risk of attack by identifying/blocking zero-day malware
• Collapse multiple separate security services onto a single platform
• Cost effective service supporting all environments (small or large)
• Flexible policy-based access for different user group requirements
• Proactive approach to detection and prevention of cyber-attacks
• Detailed malware and threat analysis and reporting
• Identify application usage; type, what and who is using it
• Enhance work efficiencies by enabling the rightapplications during worktime
• Prevent data leakage through unauthorised file transfer
• Automated protection against attacks

£154.80 a unit

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

326136211389043

Contact

Jonny Scott
01904 562200
ccs@phoenixs.co.uk

Service scope

• Service constraints: N/A
• System requirements:
  • For Hardware: Racking, Power, Cabling etc.
  • For Virtual: A supported hypervisor/public cloud environment
  • For Cloud-Delivered: A Panorama and Cortex Data Lake instance

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: 24x7x365 Support; Priority 1 (Critical) - < 1 Hour ; Priority 2 (High) - 2 Hours; Priority 3 (Medium) - 4 Hours; Priority 4 (Low) - 8 Business Hours; Support Service Level Agreements (SLA) are identical for Monday to Friday and Weekends/Public Holidays.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Onsite support
• Support levels: All products come with a standard support offering included which entitles the customer to 24x7x365 email, telephone and web support.; A dedicated "Resident Engineer" is available as an additional purchase at $385,000 USD (List Price)
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Palo Alto Networks offers on-site training and online training in Prisma Cloud; In addition, publicly accessible user-documentation which details everything from initial setup through to ongoing maintenance & usage and how to use the API.; Professional Services are also available in the form of "Quickstart" packages to rapidly onboard organisations.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: All customer data is exportable should the contract come to an end.; Cloud data that Palo Alto Networks hold on an organisation/tenant can be exported and deleted by contacting Palo Alto Networks support. If no contact is made data will automatically be purged after 90 days post cessation of the contract(s).
• End-of-contract process: At the end of the contract, the organisation keeps the VM-series firewall licenses with the data stored on them, and disposes of them in accordance with their own policies.; For hardware appliances the organisation decides on the disposal.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Using the web interface: The web interface is accessible either by the dedicated management interface or by enabling web management capabilities on a traffic-processing (dataplane) interface.; ; All features and functionality are primarily delivered through the web interface.; This includes the initial setup, system-configuration, network-configuration, supporting objects configuration, security policy creation, monitoring and reporting.; ; A role-based access control mechanism is available if desired to restrict certain users/roles to only certain configuration functions or views.
• Web interface accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web interface is accessible: The web interface is accessible either by the dedicated management interface or by enabling web management capabilities on a traffic-processing (dataplane) interface.; ; Access to this management interface can be restricted by IP address if desired.; ; Most modern browsers are supported for accessing the UI.
• Web interface accessibility testing: N/A
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The RESTful API has near full-functionality of what is available through the command-line interface (CLI) or the web-interface. The API can be used to program practically any aspect of the platform and then be used to monitor and report the health and data the platform itself holds. The API can also be used to “Bootstrap” or provision the NGFW to cut-down on deployment time. There are prebuilt examples of using the API to integrate with other third-party services to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
• API automation tools:
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • OpenStack
  • SaltStack
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Other
• Other API automation tools:
  • Python/GoLibraries–ublished and standardised libraries for use in customprojects
  • Palo Alto's Cortex XSOAR-Supports the industry leading SOAR toolset.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• Command line interface: Yes
• Command line interface compatibility:
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
  • Other
• Using the command line interface: The command-line interface (CLI) used by the NGFW is accessible via telnet, SSH and serial.; The CLI can be utilised to configure and manage all aspects of the platform.; The CLI has two primary operating modes, an “operator” read-only mode which is used to display information and configuration, the other being a “configurator” read-write mode which can be used to make configuration changes.; The CLI also supports role-based access control (RBAC) allowing for more granular control over what can and cannot be done per user.

Scaling

• Scaling available: Yes
• Scaling type:
  • Automatic
  • Manual
• Independence of resources: Cloud-delivered NGFW are deployed in a public cloud environment, each service user has their own resources dedicated to them in the public cloud environment. There is no "shared tenancy" capability
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting:
  • API
  • Email
  • Other

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types:
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • HTTP request and response status
  • Memory
  • Network
  • Number of active instances
  • Other
• Other metrics:
  • Current active sessions
  • Layer-7 application statistics: bandwidth, sessions, users etc.
  • User statistics: bandwidth, sessions, threats, etc.
  • Known malware and IPS events
  • Benign, Grayware and Malicious files
  • File transfer activity
  • URL Filtering activity
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra features and support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Palo Alto

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Service are supplied from Google and Amazon Data centers (further information to follow); Google Security statement; https://cloud.google.com/security/overview/ ; https://cloud.google.com/security/; ; AWS Security Statement; https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/controls/ ; https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-whitepaper; https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/data-centers/; ; All logs are stored in the Cortex data lake, user activity is monitored and stored in the Cortex data lake for the agreed retention period.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
  • Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: Yes
• What’s backed up:
  • Only data within the service provided can be backed up
  • And restored, no external entity can be backed up/restored.
• Backup controls: The service configuration can be backed up via API on demand or via the CLI or web interface.; The central managed platform (Panorama) can be scheduled to export configuration data of managed devices via SCP or FTP to an external storage repository.
• Datacentre setup:
  • Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
  • Multiple datacentres
  • Single datacentre with multiple copies
  • Single datacentre
• Scheduling backups: Users schedule backups through a web interface
• Backup recovery: Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Palo Alto Networks uses standard encryption for telemetry and update services, with separate deployment-specific certificates
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Palo Alto Networks uses industry standard encryption for telemetry and update services, with separate per-customer deployment-specific certificates generated using an OTP

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: N/A - responsibility of the cloud provider
• Approach to resilience: N/A - responsibility of the cloud provider, and also dependent on the configuration of the NGFW deployment
• Outage reporting: N/A

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Restrictions can be implemented by restricting IP addresses able to access the management interface(s). In addition a role-based access control (RBAC) system is in place to further restrict users to user definable configuration views and modes.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Devices users manage the service through:
  • Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
  • Dedicated device on a government network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
  • Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
  • Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: No audit information available
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Certified by PECB MS, Canada.
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 26/8/2021
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: Yes
• CSA STAR accreditation date: Available on request
• CSA STAR certification level: Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
• What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover: N/A
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Available on request
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Available on request
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • A list of product certifications can be found here:
  • https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/legal-notices/trust-center/technical-certifications#
  • These include SOC2, Fedramp,Common Criteria,
  • FIPS 140-2 and NCSC Foundation Grade Certification.

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Palo Alto Networks has a formal Enterprise Risk Management program, which includes the performance of an annual risk assessment, with periodic updates, as applicable, to identify and assess key risks and their mitigation approaches. The scope of the program encompasses information security risks and product risks. Our security program consists of a risk-based approach that includes administrative, technical and physical safeguards reasonably designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of customer data. Palo Alto Network's information security program is aligned to ISO 27001/2, and includes key controls from HIPAA, PCI and SOC2.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Both Palo Alto Networks and the end-user organisation are in full control of their relevant and respective change control processes.; Additional details are available upon request.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Applications and software that collect, transmit or display, or process End User Data, Palo Alto Networks conducts an application security assessment review to identify common security vulnerabilities as identified by industry recognized organizations annually or for all major releases, whichever occurs first. The scope of the security assessment will primarily focus on application security, including, but not limited to, a penetration test of the application, as well as a code review.; ; Palo Alto Networks utilizes a qualified third party to conduct the application security assessments. Palo Alto Networks may conduct the security assessment review directly, following industry standard best practices.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Applications and software that collect, transmit or display, or process End User Data, Palo Alto Networks conducts an application security assessment review to identify common security vulnerabilities as identified by industry recognized organizations annually or for all major releases, whichever occurs first. The scope of the security assessment will primarily focus on application security, including, but not limited to, a penetration test of the application, as well as a code review.; ; Palo Alto Networks utilizes a qualified third party to conduct the application security assessments. Palo Alto Networks may conduct the security assessment review directly, following industry standard best practices.
• Incident management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: This information is available upon request

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: No

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: Available on request

Social Value

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

  Phoenix is Carbon Neutral - eight years ahead of government targets. We have achieved this by offsetting our operational emissions with carbon credit-approved schemes. By 2026 we will have further reduced our emissions by 50%, and by 2040 we will be Carbon Net-Zero.; ; We are ISO 14001 certified and hold IEMA membership. In addition, we have developed a Sustainability Carbon Accounting System, which is updated monthly and work closely with suppliers to ensure compliance and best practice throughout our supply chain and operations. ; ; Contract waste will be minimised by recycling wherever possible, removing any general waste we create, and most crucially using cloud technology:; ; Our clean air low carbon initiatives reduce the impact of our car emissions on the environment and support people's health:; ; • All company cars are electric vehicles ; • Car Share programmes ; • Flexible working hours for public transport timetables ; • Electric vehicle charging points in the car park for all employees to use on personal or company vehicles ; • Use of public transport centrally arranged and promoted for customer visits as the preferred choice of travel ; • Hybrid working environment with staff only required to travel to the office 2-3 times a week. ; • No 'car idling' policy; ; To support customers on G-Cloud in fighting climate change, we will deliver the following sustainability workshops free of charge:; ; • Explore how Microsoft technology can help you record, report, and reduce your carbon emissions in one platform; • Understand how to procure ICT kit for a circular economy, accounting and mitigating for the carbon cost of your hardware; • Discover how you can implement ISO 14001 principles for robust environmental governance and compliance; • Learn how to engage your workforce and change their behaviours to work in greener ways, reducing paper and mileage
• Covid-19 recovery:

  Covid-19 recovery

  N/A
• Tackling economic inequality:

  Tackling economic inequality

  Phoenix takes our responsibilities seriously around our supply chain to tackle economic inequality, increase resilience and capacity, and create new business, new jobs, and new skills. ; ; We are committed to working with a diverse supply chain to provide a route to market, with over 70% of our services supply chain represented by SMEs. In addition, Phoenix is a signatory of the Prompt Payment Code to show our dedication to driving change towards fair payment terms and boosting the economy. ; ; A member of our Alliances Team works with each partner to give them the necessary support to help them achieve their goals. We operate open-book pricing models with most of our partners to ensure fair margin allocation and encourage implementing improvements for mutual gain-share.; ; Phoenix ensures its suppliers are treated fairly, ensuring invoices are paid on time as well as promoting fair commercial arrangements. Phoenix encourages all suppliers that the products they supply are from sustainable sources and have excellent quality and environmental practices. This includes ensuring that human rights are adhered to throughout the supply chain. Phoenix is an ethical employer and is committed to raising its staff's well-being, living standards, skills, and health.; ; These values are upheld in our Supplier Code of Conduct (www.phoenixs.co.uk/about-us/corporate-policies/supplier-code-of-conduct) with our suppliers audited for compliance to ensure our customers are confident they are working with an ethical, social and sustainable supply chain.
• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  We are committed to ensuring equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. You can read our Diversity and Inclusion Policy at www.phoenixs.co.uk/about-us/corporate-policies/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-policy. ; ; We are passionate about helping women to advance in the IT industry by providing them with access to and support from other women working within the industry, as well as flexible working for every employee and an enhanced parental leave package. This commitment has proved hugely successful with 32% of positions at Phoenix held by women – well above the 20% industry average.; ; We have also begun our grassroots work by speaking in schools to highlight the roles available within the tech industry and encourage more women to consider careers in tech from an early age.; ; We are proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer, supporting an important socially responsible policy and investing in our people.In addition to this, when establishing partnerships with parnters, and suppliers, we also check their living wage status to ensure that the message is heard and acted upon by all.; ; We are a proud signatory on the Race at Work Charter which underpins our commitment to take practical steps to ensure that we are tackling barriers that people face in recruitment and progression.; ; We work with our customers and employees to ensure that they can utilise the accessibility options available to them within the technology, apps, and services we all use daily. Whether this is the device they use, the accessibility checker within Outlook or Word, or live captions that can be added to all Microsoft Teams meetings, we ensure that how we work is as inclusive as possible.; ; We are a Disability Confident Committed employer, this scheme supports organisations like Phoenix to make the most of the talents people with disabilities bring to the workplace.
• Wellbeing:

  Wellbeing

  We are committed to creating a compassionate workplace where all employees feel supported personally and professionally by challenging the stigma surrounding mental health, raising awareness, and offering education opportunities. In 2020, we signed Mind’s ‘Time to Change Employer Pledge’ to back our commitment.; ; We ensure that our team are supported, remain in communication with management and each other, and understand that they can speak openly to their managers about their health and wellbeing to encourage discussion about how we can help them. Our programme of activities is run by our internal mental health and wellbeing ambassadors to help promote positive mental health and embed it into the culture of the organisation. ; ; We hold internal monthly calls where employees are invited to openly discuss mental health and wellbeing, covering topics such as: loneliness, body image, Pride month, menopause support, and parental wellbeing. The aim of these sessions is to remove the stigma often associated with mental health by providing a platform that encourages open and honest conversations about mental wellbeing.; ; Each employee at Phoenix is given one hour a month on a Wednesday, to do something that supports their wellbeing.That’s 3,732 hours across the entire company each year dedicated to wellbeing.; ; We have undertaken research and engaged in internal conversations about menopause in the workplace to understand how we can better support our employees with the physical and emotional symptoms of the menopause.; ; We use the Microsoft Viva platform to help our employees manage their digital well-being and understand how they can change how they work to improve well-being across the organisation.; ; We have eight mental health first aiders across the business who are professionally trained to provide mental health support and guidance to members of our team who require it.

Pricing

• Price: £154.80 a unit
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at ccs@phoenixs.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.