Manage your Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation firewalls from Strata Cloud Manager. Cloud Management of NGFW is a cloud-delivered and AI-powered security solution to manage Palo Alto Networks' advanced ML-powered firewalls alongside your Prisma Access deployments.

Cloud Management of NGFWs is done from a single streamlined user interface and leverages Palo Alto Networks best-in-class cloud-delivered security services. To manage your Next-Gen firewalls from Strata Cloud Manager, you must enable AIOps for NGFW Premium or activate Strata Cloud Manager Essentials or Strata Cloud Manager Pro, which also draws on PAN-OS device telemetry data to give you an overview of the health and security of your cloud managed NGFWs. For logging, Strata Logging Service provides a secure, resilient, and fault tolerant centralized log storage and aggregation.

Starting in October 2024, Strata Cloud Manager has two licensing tiers: Strata Cloud Manager Essentials and Strata Cloud Manager Pro. This unified structure streamlines the deployment of network security offerings, including AIOps for NGFW, Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM), cloud management functionality, and Strata Logging Service. See Strata Cloud Manager License.

If you're already using AIOps for NGFW Free app or Strata Cloud Manager with AIOps for NGFW Premium license, your existing licenses are not impacted and you can continue to amend, extend, renew, or activate them without any changes.

The Strata Cloud Manager Command Center is your new homepage in Strata Cloud Manager. The Strata Command Center provides a consolidated view of the Palo Alto Networks Network security platform and highlights areas where you can take direct actions to improve the health of your network. All the open threats, risks, and incidents impacting your network are all in one place. Strata Cloud Manager surfaces immediate actions you can take to improve security.