Big deal. A modest configuration feature that does what? Change firewall policy for an individual?! If any administrator is putzing around with this kind of minutia they deserve to be sacked. Perimeter policy should be immutable for everyone in order to ensure a secure, stable operation.
Palo Alto is making a huge stretch in a commodity-based market, trying to justify yet another redundant piece of equipment and have someone cough up 30 to 60 k for so-called peace-of-mind anyone could get with just a little bit of effort. BORING!
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And, that's news!!! Wow!!!
And, that's news!!! Wow!!! Tim, I thought you were better than this. I guess the standard for newsworthy coverage has really gone down. I'm surprised that Palo Alto is even making an announcement about this. So, what other essential firewall features has their engineering team been able to complete? How about VLAN support, Radius authentication, time based firewall rules, NAT, PAT... one press announcement on each of these features would be a great of way of keeping Palo Alto in the news ;]
Great for a school
Perhaps in a normal office you don't need to apply rules based on user, but in a school something that can do this is ideal. It makes enforcement of loss of internet much easier, you can restrict content based on user, etc.