Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) shares catapulted higher Wednesday, having announced the general availability of its Okyo™ Garde Enterprise Edition that provides industry-leading cybersecurity to protect businesses from home network vulnerabilities.
“Everyday” reads Wednesday morning’s news release, “more organizations are adopting a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture to provide consistent protection to employees – anywhere work needs to happen. Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition enables organizations to extend Palo Alto Networks’ best-in-class SASE into the home network through a security subscription that comes with Prisma® Access and a beautifully designed Wi-fi 6 router.”
Built for ease of use, Okyo Garde is seamless to configure for IT teams, and easy to manage for at-home employees through a simple mobile app.
In order to create tightly controlled security zones for corporate and personal devices, Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition also includes an option for at-home employees to create separate private and personal networks. The use of separate networks prevents commingling of data, while also reducing the risk of attackers moving laterally from one network to another.
The program purports to protects the corporate network from the employee’s personal network at home, reducing the risk of lateral movement; secure unmanaged work devices at home, such as printers, VoIP phones and hardware prototypes; and helps protect the whole home from phishing, malware and other attacks, including on personal and IoT devices.
PANW shares opened Wednesday up $6.83, or 1.1%, to $618.72.