Apply security best practices to reduce the attack surface, gain visibility into traffic, prevent threats, and protect your network, users, and data.

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Documents, checklists, videos, webinars, best practice assessment tools, and more help you learn about and apply security best practices.

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Best Practices Assessment (BPA)

Decryption Best Practices


You can't defend against threats you can’t see. By enabling decryption on your next-gen firewalls you can inspect and control SSL/TLS and SSH traffic so that you can detect and prevent threats that would otherwise remain hidden in encrypted traffic. Use the best practice guidelines in this site to learn how to plan for and deploy decryption in your organization.

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Data Center Best Practices


Data centers house your enterprise's most valuable assets. Data center confidentiality, integrity, and availability are critical. A best practices data center Security policy safeguards your data and prevents successful attacks.

Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access


Learn the best practices for securing administrative access to your firewalls to prevent successful cyberattacks through an exposed management interface.

Internet Gateway Best Practices


To protect your network from cyberattack and improve your overall security posture, implement a best practice internet gateway security policy. Use the guidelines in this site to plan, deploy, and maintain your internet gateway best practice security policy.

Videos

Best Practice Assessment Plus (BPA+) Tool Demo

View the BPA+ demo, which shows you how to check your PAN-OS best practice configuration and update it if necessary.

BPA+ YouTube Channel


Click "View BPA+ Playlist" to access all of the BPA+ videos, including best practice network security checks and a demo.

Decrypt Your Network Traffic

Decrypt traffic so that you can inspect it and protect your network from malicious traffic.

Introduction to the Best Practice Assessment Plus (BPA+) Tool

Learn about how to check and improve your best practice network security posture using the BPA+.

What Is Zero Trust?

John Kindervag talks about what Zero Trust means.