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The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewall is the virtualized form of the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall. It is positioned for use in a virtualized or cloud environment, where it can protect and secure east-west and north-south traffic. 

The solution blueprint is tested and validated on the NativeEdge platform to securely deploy the VM-Series firewall remotely through the Edge Orchestrator. 

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a best-in-class Next-Generation Firewall, delivering top-rated layer 7 security to prevent known and unknown vulnerabilities, and built for agile deployment in private cloud, hypervisors, and edge computing. 

As a Next-Generation Firewall, the VM-Series detects applications and protocols and individually tracks each device and user for superior visibility and runtime security of every protected asset, protecting a wide variety of endpoints and industry-specific uses from eCommerce to IoT to medical and industrial OT. Palo Alto Networks’ security subscriptions enhance the power of our VM-Series Firewall by delivering advanced threat prevention, deep visibility, and automated protection across a wide range of use cases—ensuring customers stay secure as their environments evolve.

Designed for deployment at scale in remote environments, the VM-Series uses a single-pass architecture for efficient processing of traffic inline, driven by AI and ML for constantly updated attack awareness per site, independently tested at over 99% effective with zero false positives. Uniform security enforcement, universal visibility, and seamless flexible licensing are provided by Panorama, our centralized management console, available as a choice of either VM or appliance.