Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Enhances Security for Virtualized Workloads on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

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We're excited to announce that Palo Alto Networks VM-Series next-generation firewalls are now supported on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This integration provides more seamless, robust security capabilities for your workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, enhancing your overall security posture and simplifying management. 

Addressing Security Concerns:

Security for containerized and virtualized workloads is a top priority for many organizations. Traditional security solutions often struggle to keep pace with the dynamic nature of containers, microservices and VMs. The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization helps address these concerns by providing:

• Micro-segmentation: Isolate your workloads to mitigate lateral movement of threats. 
• Improved Cost Efficiency: Palo Alto Networks VM-Series on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization enables more cost effective workload migration and deployment. Repurpose the flexible credits for migrated VM-Series firewalls.
• Real-time Threat Prevention: Leverage Palo Alto Networks advanced threat intelligence to proactively block known and unknown threats. 
• Compliance: Address data security compliance requirements , for deployments.
• Simplified Deployment and Management: Integrate Palo Alto Networks VM-Series directly into your Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environment for streamlined deployment and centralized management of your security policies.
• Enhanced Visibility and Control: Gain granular visibility into your containerized traffic flows and enforce more consistent security policies across your entire Virtual environment and Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Improved Operational Efficiency: Reduce operational overhead and streamline security management by integrating security directly into your existing Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization workflow.

By integrating Palo Alto Networks VM-Series with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, you can more confidently deploy and manage applications while maintaining the enhanced levels of security. This integration represents our continued commitment to providing comprehensive security solutions for modern, dynamic environments.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization:

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, provides a modern platform for organizations to run and deploy their new and existing VM workloads. The solution allows for easy migration and management of traditional VMs onto a trusted, more consistent and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization simplifies the migration of VMs while offering a path for infrastructure modernization, taking advantage of the simplicity and speed of a cloud-native application platform. It aims to preserve existing virtualization investments while embracing modern management principles.

VM-series Next Generation Firewall:

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewalls consistently protect public and private clouds, virtualized data centers, and branch environments by delivering inline network security and threat prevention. Public cloud platforms and software-defined network solutions provide basic security functionality, but lack the advanced threat prevention capabilities needed to keep your environment safe. VM-Series virtual firewalls augment your security posture with the industry-leading threat prevention capabilities of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall in a VM form factor, making it ideal for deployment in environments where it is difficult or impossible to install a hardware firewall. 

Figure 1: Complete Security for Your Virtualized Workloads

Learn more about securing your Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environment with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series:

• VM-Series & Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
• Joint Solution Brief 
• VM-Series Firewall Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Hypervisor Support