EDITOR'S CORNER

Welcome to the second edition of the Tabula Rosa Newsletter! In this issue, we are proud to highlight two very strong "Best of Breed" products. These products, Palo Alto and Tufin, are consistently rated as the top products in their specific areas. Additionally, these tools are highly complementary and offer a compelling solution to next generation firewalls and firewall operations management. Both Palo Alto and Tufin deliver advanced technology, significant price/performance, rich feature sets and top-tier global support. Each respective product has a significant customer base within Fortune 500, financial, government and service provider organizations.

These products spotlighted today are just two with the comprehensive Tabula Rosa Solutions Suite. Follow our link below to view our entire offering encompassing security, network, system and "green" platforms. As with Palo Alto and Tufin, all of Tabula Rosa's products are selected based upon the highest standards of performance, functionality and other criteria empathizing customer centric criteria. In addition to the technologies, Tabula Rosa offers support and engineering services for not only its own portfolio but other areas of networking, security and systems as well.

As with all Tabula Rosa offerings, specific features are available. On-line demos and direct sales calls are available by contacting Tabula Rosa Systems directly.

Future newsletters will feature products which address transaction monitoring, log management and real time flow reporting.

Although the processes noted above have contributed to the success of TRS, our company's charter is the mainstay for conducting business.  At the heart of the charter is an absolute core of ethics to present technology in an objective manner respecting the customer and vendor fairly and clearly.

Each issue of the Tabula Rosa Newsletter will feature two or more products from our company's portfolio.  All of these will include links for more information, on-line meetings demonstrations or on-site meetings.
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Tabula Rosa Systems (TRS) is dedicated to providing Best of Breed Technology and Best of Class Professional Services to our Clients. We have a portfolio of products which we have selected for their capabilities, viability and value. TRS offers product design, implementation and support services on all products that we represent. Additionally, TRS provides expertise in Network Analysis, eBusiness Application Profiling, ePolicy and eBusiness Troubleshooting.

NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISE FIREWALLS

Palo Alto Networks™ is the network security company.  Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content - by user, not just IP address - at up to 20Gbps with no performance degradation.  Based on patent-pending APP-ID™ technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications - regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption - and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage.  Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation.  Most recently, Palo Alto Networks has enabled enterprises to extend protection over all types of traffic, applications, and threats to remote users with the release of GlobalProtect™.

Today's network security situation:

The Internet now accounts for the majority of traffic traversing enterprise networks.  Network users are accessing new generations of web-based applications for both personal and business use.  Many of these applications help improve user and business productivity, while others consume large amounts of bandwidth, pose needless security risks, and increase business liabilities.

Applications have become the predominant threat vector.  But traditional "port blocking" firewalls are unable to identify or effectively control any of them.  That's because they classify traffic based only on ports and protocols.  For example, most web traffic would be identified as simply HTTP coming through port 80, with no information on the specific applications associated with that port and protocol.  Even worse, this problem is not limited to just port 80.  Internet applications are increasingly using encrypted SSL tunnels on port 443, use clever evasive tactics to disguise themselves, or use port-hopping to find any entry point through the firewall.  Again, legacy firewalls cannot see or control any of that traffic.

For all of these reasons, "port blocking" firewalls are no longer an effective network security solution to manage the risks and rewards of today's Internet applications in the enterprise. This is not surprising since firewalls have seen very little innovation over the last 15 years. IT organizations have tried to compensate for their deficiencies by surrounding them with proxies, intrusion prevention systems, URL filtering, and other costly and complex devices.  But despite this propagation of point solutions, it still proved to be ineffective in today's application and threat landscape.  It is time to address the many shortcomings of the current legacy firewall and network security infrastructure!

Palo Alto Solutions:

At Palo Alto Networks, our mission is to fundamentally address the role of the firewall in the grander scheme of network security infrastructure and software deployments.  Based on patent pending APP-ID™ technology, Palo Alto next-generation firewalls accurately identify more than 1,300 applications - regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption - and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage.  As a result, the firewall is once again able to function as a strategic point of network control.  This enables enterprises to safely embrace web-based applications and social media, while maintaining complete visibility and control and significantly reducing total cost of ownership through architecture simplification and device consolidation.

Here are some of the capabilities available only in Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls:

• The only firewall to classify traffic based on the accurate identification of the application, regardless of port, protocol, or evasive tactic.
• The only firewall to identify, control and inspect SSL encrypted traffic and applications.
• The only firewall that provides policy-based QoS traffic shaping by application and user, enabling you to control performance of business and personal applications on the network.
• The only firewall with real-time content scanning to protect against viruses, spyware, data leakage, and application vulnerabilities based on a stream-based threat prevention engine.
• The only firewall that can scan content for social security and credit card numbers, to help prevent leakage of sensitive data and support PCI compliance.
• The only firewall to provide graphical visualization of network applications with detailed user, group and network-level data categorized by sessions, bytes, ports, threats and time.
• The only firewall with line-rate, low-latency performance for all services, even under load.
• The only firewall capable of delivering a logical perimeter for mobile users.

tufin / MAKING SECURITY MANAGABLE

Tufin™ is the leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions that enable companies to cost-effectively manage their network security policy, comply with regulatory standards, and minimize IT risk. With the award-winning Tufin Security Suite, security teams are successfully managing firewall operations and performing audits and risk assessments – often in half the time. Founded in 2005 by leading firewall and business systems experts, Tufin serves more than 800 customers in industries from telecom and financial services to energy, transportation and pharmaceuticals. Tufin partners with leading vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, F5, Blue Coat, McAfee and BMC Software, and is known for technological innovation and dedicated customer service.

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SOLUTION OVERVIEW

Palo Alto Networks and Tufin Technologies have partnered to jointly deliver a total lifecycle security solution for enterprise, service provider and auditor customers. Tufin offers a complete solution for streamlining firewall operations and compliance audits, and for automating the change request lifecycle, that is specifically tailored for Palo Alto Networks firewalls. The combined solution provides network security teams with seamless, comprehensive operations management and auditing capabilities of the Palo Alto Networks firewalls, increasing management visibility, accelerating the auditing process and reducing the total cost of making changes. Palo Alto Networks combined with Tufin will greatly improve your firewall operations and compliance posture with enhanced application visibility and control.

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