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APCommunications CO., LTD. Announces the World's First* Open Source Software "PALallax" Release
[October 05, 2015]

APCommunications CO., LTD. Announces the World's First* Open Source Software "PALallax" Release


APCommunications CO., LTD. (Head Office: Chiyodaku, Tokyo, CEO: Takeshi Uchida) has released open source software "PALallax" that enables to collect, browse and analyze log of Palo Alto (News - Alert) Networks Next-Generation Firewall.

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"PALallax" is user-friendly software that adds auxiliary features to Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall with high-visibility design and intuitive operation. Other software with similar functions has been released already, but they are sold at expensive price. However, there are not many companies that can pay the high expense for software, which performs only at security incident, such as log collection. In order to provide satisfactory operation for that kind of companies, we have decided to release this software for free. We keep on improving technical support for the growth of companies that introduce Next-Generation Firwall in Japan.



*Provide under Open Source (News - Alert) Software of Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall. (According to our investigation as of September 2015)

PALallax Overview
• Service Name: PALallax (http://ap-com.co.jp/ja/paloalto/palallax/index_en.html)
• Main Features
1, Open Source Software
    Since PALallax is software which installs our own plug-in in OSS tool, we provide a service for free.
    * A part of data may be transferred to APCommunications for threat countermeasure in the future.
2, Simple and Intuitive Operation
    PALallax adopts OSS with simple and intuitive operation in visualization, and allocate various graphs more visible.
3, Real-Time Browse
    Users can browse real-time log. Import operation is unnecessary separately.
4, Browse Long-Term Log
    Depending on disk capacity, users can store and browse long-term log.


*More information is here.

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Overview
(https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/platforms/firewalls.html)
Next-Generation Firewall developed by Palo Alto Networks is a security appliance that provides leading protection in the aspect of user, contents and application. It was released in USA and its introduction size has been growing greatly. The amount of sales for fiscal 2014 was 598 million dollars and increased by 51 percent compared to the previous year.

APCommunications CO., LTD. Overview
Company Name : APCommunications CO., LTD.
Executive Member : CEO Takeshi Uchida
Head Office Address : Kandaekimae SK Bldg., 2-5-5 Kajicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 101-0044 Japan
Establishment : November 1995
Description of Business : System Suggestion, Development, Maintenance, EC site Construction/Operation, New Service Planning/Development, SI/BPO Service for Carrier/ISP/DC on Primary/Revenue Share Contract
URL : http://www.ap-com.co.jp/

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