PaloAlto User-ID

User-ID

As companies carry on to leverage Internet and web-centric business models to assist growth and enhance efficiencies, visibility into what users are doing on the network becomes more and more significant. Dynamic IP addressing across both wired and wireless networks, and remote access by employees and non-employees alike have made the use of IP addresses an useless mechanism for customizing and manipulating user activity.

Palo Alto Networks User-ID technology deals with the deficiency of visibility into user activity by seamlessly combining with Active Directory to dynamically link an IP address to user and group information. With visibility into user activity, enterprises can observe and manage applications and content passing through the network based on the user and group information stored within the user repository. User-ID allows IT to:

• Retain visibility into user activities relative to the applications in use and the content they may generate
• Tighten security posture by implementing policies that ties application usage to specific users and groups, as opposed to simply the port and protocol
• Decrease propagation of threats through more granular control over the applications traversing the network

User-ID provides an administrator with ultimate visibility into the application activity at a user level, not just an IP address level and in so doing, addresses a key need in regaining control over the applications passing through the network. When deployed in conjunction with App-ID and Content-ID technologies, User-ID allows IT organizations to enjoy unmatched policy-based visibility and control over users, applications and threats

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