Get More From What You Already Own
Most firewalls run at a fraction of their potential — broad rules, missing profiles, no decryption, and management sprawl. Our optimization engagement closes those gaps and lifts your existing Palo Alto Networks estate to best practice, with measurable results and no rip-and-replace.
The Platform You Bought vs The One You're Running
Optimization is the highest-ROI security spend available to you: it reduces risk and improves performance using licences you already pay for. No new hardware, no migration, no disruption.
Eliminate overly-permissive rules and apply best-practice threat, URL, DNS and WildFire profiles across the estate.
Right-size profiles, decryption and sizing to recover throughput and session capacity.
Adopt App-ID, User-ID, logging and decryption so you can finally see — and control — what's on your network.
Measure, Prioritise, Remediate, Prove
A structured, low-risk programme — every change is justified by a finding and validated by evidence.
Baseline & Assess
Typically 1 weekWe establish where you stand today against Palo Alto Networks best practice — starting from a Best Practice Assessment and a review of your policy, profiles, decryption and management plane.
What Happens
- Best Practice Assessment (BPA)
- Rulebase & policy audit
- Security profile coverage review
- Decryption & logging review
- Panorama / management review
What You Receive
- Scored baseline report
- Gap analysis vs best practice
- Quantified risk & quick wins
Your Involvement
- Read-only access to devices
- Context on business constraints
Prioritise
Typically 2–3 daysFindings are turned into a prioritised, effort-estimated remediation backlog — sequenced by risk reduction and operational impact, so the highest-value, lowest-risk changes come first.
What Happens
- Findings triaged by risk & effort
- Change-impact assessment
- Sequencing & quick-win selection
What You Receive
- Prioritised remediation roadmap
- Effort & window estimates
- Agreed change schedule
Your Involvement
- Confirm priorities & constraints
- Approve the change schedule
Remediate
Phased — to suit youWe implement the agreed changes in controlled, reversible steps within your maintenance windows — cleaning the rulebase, adopting App-ID and decryption, and hardening profiles, all under change control.
What Happens
- Policy & rulebase cleanup
- App-ID & decryption adoption
- Security profile hardening
- Panorama rationalisation
What You Receive
- Implemented, tested changes
- Change log & rollback notes
- Progress reporting
Your Involvement
- Change-window approvals
- Validation of business apps
Validate & Report
Typically 2–3 daysWe re-run the assessment to prove improvement, document everything, and leave you with a clear before/after picture and a roadmap for continuous improvement.
What Happens
- Re-assessment vs baseline
- Before/after scoring
- Documentation & handover
What You Receive
- Improvement report & new score
- Updated as-built documentation
- Continuous-improvement roadmap
Your Involvement
- Review & sign-off
- Decide on ongoing tuning
Optimization Service Areas
Pick a focused area or run a full estate optimization — each one maps directly to BPA findings and best-practice standards.
Remove shadowed, expired, and unused rules; consolidate and reorder for performance and auditability.
Turn Best Practice Assessment findings into a prioritised, low-risk remediation programme.
Right-size profiles, decryption, and sizing to maximise throughput and session capacity.
Migrate port-based rules to App-ID and roll out a phased SSL decryption strategy.
Rationalise device groups, templates, and log collectors for a clean, scalable management plane.
Apply best-practice Threat Prevention, WildFire, URL, and DNS Security profiles across the estate.
What You Walk Away With
Tangible, reusable deliverables that prove the value of the engagement and guide your team's ongoing operations.
Your before/after best-practice score with a clear breakdown of what changed and the risk it removed.
Every finding ranked by risk and effort, with window estimates — usable long after the engagement ends.
Refreshed architecture and configuration records reflecting the optimised state of your estate.
A full record of every change made, with rollback steps — complete auditability for your change board.
Guidance so your team sustains the gains — what to monitor, what to avoid, and how to keep drifting back to best practice.
Run our instant online assessment any time to track your posture between engagements.