Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is a network and enterprise security company based in Santa Clara, California. The company’s core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls designed to provide network security, visibility and granular control of network activity based on application, user, and content identification and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. Palo Alto Networks competes against traditional firewall, IPS and IDS, and UTM vendors including Cisco, Fortinet, Cyberoam, Check Point, Juniper Networks, Allot and others. Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto_Networks