Palo Alto PA-3220 in the UAE
Enterprise NGFW for data center perimeter and core. Workhorse of UAE financial services and government deployments.
What is Palo Alto PA-3220?
The PA-3220 is an enterprise-class NGFW supporting up to 10 Gbps threat prevention and 2 million concurrent sessions. It is widely deployed across UAE financial services, government, and energy sectors.
Core capabilities.
- Up to 10 Gbps threat prevention
- 2M concurrent sessions
- Hardware acceleration
- 10G port density
- HA configurations
Implementing Palo Alto PA-3220 for UAE enterprises.
PA-3220 deployments are CWS's most common engagement shape in the UAE. Standard engagement: 6-8 weeks for HA pair plus Panorama integration.
Engagements are scoped on a fixed-fee SOW with weekly review checkpoints and named senior engineer ownership. CWS holds PCNSC, PCNSE, and Prisma SASE APS certifications, with named platform specialisations across Software Firewall, Hardware Firewall, and Prisma Cloud. Bilingual handover artifacts in English plus a second language are produced where audit and operations teams require them.
Common engagement shapes.
Three patterns that recur in UAE engagements. Each starts with a fixed-scope assessment and progresses through implementation into managed operations where the customer wants steady-state coverage.
- 01
UAE bank data-center perimeter
- 02
UAE government agency core firewall
UAE regulatory mapping.
PA-3220 with full threat prevention bundle satisfies NESA, ISR, and PCI DSS perimeter requirements.
Need a written control mapping for an audit? Talk to a CWS engineer to scope the artifact set for TDRA NESA, ISR v2, CBUAE, DFSA, FSRA, or sector-specific frameworks.
Frequently asked: Palo Alto PA-3220
How many UAE deployments has CWS done on PA-3220?
CWS has deployed 50+ Palo Alto firewalls across PA-400 to PA-3200 series in the UAE.
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