The launch of the GlobalProtect cloud service is a recognition by Palo Alto Networks that more employees are accessing corporate networks outside of the traditional perimeter walls, Matt Keil, Palo Alto Networks' Director of Product Marketing for Public Cloud, said. Palo Alto Networks will manage a multi-tenant, cloud-based infrastructure, and partners or customers can buy the service according to bandwidth requirements. The launch allows partners and customers to bring GlobalProtect's traffic visibility, policy enforcement, threat prevention, WildFire, and other security capabilities to remote offices and mobile users with a cloud-based service. Palo Alto Networks also announced the launch of a GlobalProtect cloud service. Palo Alto Networks will further encourage developers to work on the platform with the launch of the Palo Alto Networks Venture Fund. He said developers can include ISVs and large companies, as well as partners and managed security services providers. Some of the partners already signed up include Accenture, Aruba, Carbon Black, Crowdstrike, ForeScout, Proofpoint, Phantom, and Splunk. Simkin said Palo Alto Networks already has more than 35 different application developers committed to developing on the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework. "Palo Alto Networks isn't the only one making this vastly expanding the Palo Alto Networks platform." Palo Alto Networks expects to make the platform generally available in January 2018. By building applications on the platform instead of point products, Simkin said developers could leverage the threat intelligence, user base, infrastructure, and data stores that are part of the Palo Alto Networks platform instead of starting from scratch. Simkin said the Application Framework would allow security providers to build applications for specific use cases, including identification, analytics, and incident response.
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Palo Alto Networks will provide cloud APIs, software services and compute to deliver the developed apps to customers, he said. The Application Framework will be similar in concept to frameworks offered by vendors such as Salesforce and Amazon Web Services, allowing any security provider to build cloud-based applications on top of the platform. Palo Alto Networks made the announcements at its Ignite 2017 event, held in Vancouver, Canada. What we now have an opportunity to do is essentially unleash new innovation on top of that platform," said Scott Simkin, senior group manager, threat intelligence cloud and security subscriptions. "We have done an amazing job applying absolute consistent security and efficiencies in our security platform. Palo Alto Networks is vastly expanding its security platform with the launch of a new Application Framework and cloud-based services, the company announced Tuesday.