Best Firewall for home security - Palo Alto PA 440 lab unit

I recently upgraded my home lab firewall to a PA-440 from Palo Alto. I really like the Palo Alto solution, both for production and in the home lab. The new PA-400 series firewalls are great for ensuring your connectivity is both secure and protected from threats using the advanced Palo Alto series. This video takes a look at the overall specs of the PA 400 series firewalls, the features, capabilities, and security of the units.

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Introducing the Palo Alto PA 400 series firewalls - 0:00
Looking at the physical build of the PA 440 - 1:25
Talking about heat on the heat sink - 2:22
Looking at the physical ports on the firewall - 2:38
Zero touch provisioning options - 2:50
Dual power supplies are configured in the unit - 3:13
Rack mount units - 3:35
Well built, sturdy, and other networking config - 3:51
Looking at the hardware architecture of the PA 400 series firewalls - 4:04
Looking at the management and data plane CPU configurations - 4:32
Looking at the storage configuration - 5:12
Looking at the physical specifications of the PA 400 series - 5:44
Performance specifications of the PA 400 series units - 6:00
Specific performance numbers - 6:50
What may be good models for beyond 1 gig Internet connections - 7:00
What is a Palo Alto lab unit? 7:34
What does it cost? 8:10
What does the software bundle include? 8:23
Talking about the improved commit times with the PA-440 - 8:57
Wrapping up on home lab firewall and thoughts on the Palo Alto solution - 9:41

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[michaelsims]

Good video but I would much rather have a Netgate 6100 running Pfsense for half the cost and no licensing payments. Thank you for the video! Always love to see firewall stuff.

[RyanB-dvsc]

I wish they had more budget options for home guys like me trying to gain some experience. $1100 is a serious chunk of change for a firewall to use in a lab environment not to mention that license is probably yearly...

[KeithBarker]

Great video, thank you❗
Can you recommend a vendor to buy the lab unit and license from? Palo Alto doesn't seem to make that part easy. Any help or guidance is appreciated. 🙏🏽

[apocalypsebx]

What amazing RACK in your home lab! Congras!

[tbard]

Didn't even see the video yet, but I agree 110%. Too bad it's hard to buy one as most PA partners will not sell to you, especially without a VAT (but some rare ones do).
To expand a bit, PA is, if not the best, in the top two enterprise firewalls and work great. I manage a whole lot of them at work and compared to anything else I worked on, it's so much better
Regarding the 400 series tho, it is a shame that with lot of home internet services (and smb lines too) going in the multi-gig speed (at least here) the lack of sfp+ or multi-gig ports is a bit of a shame. 800 series would be better but the price spikes if you go there, even for lab units last I checked.

[TritonB]

Pricing isn't bad at all. I've looked at Fortinet as well, but I'll be comparing the two now that I know the pricing. Currently using OPNsense.

[Alex-untl]

thank you for the video, just ordered this model today :)

[CyberTom]

Excellent video LOVE finding fellow content creators who love to to teach IT 😊

[---trqg]

PaloAlto considers as HighEnd solution in firewall world, but it's too expensive for home usage as home user firewall. Not hardware, software and licensing is expensive part of this trip.

[JonMajorCCIE]

I don't even have to watch the video to agree lol. I have a 440 at home too and it's awesome.

[lesleyklaver]

good video I am also a big fan of Palo Alto. But it's so expensive...
Where can i buy a lab unit with the subscription as you indicated in your video?

[Net-Sec-Dude]

Seems like everyone commenting on cost is told it’s “half the price” but is never given answer when asked where he purchased as an individual.

[Phyxu]

the best home enterprise grade firewall is ufw :D

[josephjefferson]

Beside the price, Palo Alto boot times are horrendous, they sometimes hang, and also during configurations. Open source is starting to become popular, but for me, they also have their downsides. Being an older, impatient guy, I don't want to have to manually incorporate third party IDS/IPS software within a firewall. I want rapid, and smooth sailing with my configurations, and experience at least, IDS incorporations within the firewall, whether physically or virtually. Because of this, my choice is Fortinet.

[sarbjitsingh]

Thank you great video. If possible could you share the url where you purchased this from.

[Ckashuba]

VAR told me that PAN won't ship to a residential address. Short of renting a PO box and setting up an LLC how can I buy one?

[beslon]

Hello everyone, what do you think about this provider - EXO Secure? They sell palo alto solutions including the lab pa-440 and they also sell license renewals.

[christsm]

This thing cost 1.400. Here in Greece. Good but to expensive for a home network

[cealdyn]

You commented "for me if security is important, there is not a better firewall than Palo in my honest opinion. Have used many other vendors and Palo is top notch to keep your network protected". Could you please do some comparison video to these "other vendors" you mentioned, with some arguments why you consider Palo Alto "the best".

[apedanticpeasant]

If PA did a home version that didn’t cost the earth that would be mega.