Palo Alto expands secure private 5G network partnerships

“While the 5G standard includes strong security features, like user authentication, privacy, encryption and some protection for signaling traffic, these are not designed to detect or stop advanced threats in mobile traffic. And it’s definitely not enough to protect enterprise, government or industrial businesses,” wrote Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager at Palo Alto Networks, in a blog about the news. 

“To truly safeguard enterprise, government and industrial operations, organizations need a holistic 5G security package. It needs to go beyond built-in protections to provide end-to-end visibility, advanced threat detection and unified security across the entire network,” Oswal stated.  

The new or expanded Palo Alto industry partnerships include:

Integration to support Anterix spectrum will ensure that Palo Alto Networks ruggedized firewalls are optimized for 900 MHz private LTE (PLTE) networks, letting utilities and other critical infrastructure providers deploy secure, reliable and high-performance private wireless broadband solutions.

Integration of Palo Alto’s NGFWs with OneLayer LTE/5G service to allow zero touch provisioning and device discovery  in enterprise IT and OT networks to help ensure monitoring and security controls across an expanded attack surface, streamlining large-scale onboarding.

Also on the NGFW front, Palo Alto tied together its firewalls with Pente’s Hypercore package to let customers see applications, services, subscribers and devices on a private wireless network so that customers can secure, multitenant private wireless deployments.