You can’t protect your network against threats you can’t see and inspect. Gartner noted that in 2020, about 70 percent of new malware campaigns used various forms of encryption. Google’s Transparency Report shows that no matter how you analyze Google web traffic, in most cases, up to 95 percent of it is encrypted. Decrypt that traffic to protect your network against hidden threats.

This document is a streamlined checklist of pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment best practices that you can follow to implement decryption. Each section includes links to detailed information in the PAN-OS Admin Guide, including how to configure Decryption policy rules and profiles.