Onboard Your NGFWs
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Onboard Your NGFWs

Learn how to onboard your firewalls to the centralized management experiences available to you: Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • NGFWs (PAN-OS & Panorama)
  • NGFWs (Cloud Management)
  • AIOps for NGFW Premium (for Strata Cloud Manager)
Introducing Cloud Management for NGFWs
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 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, Cortex Data Lake provides a secure, resilient, and fault tolerant centralized log storage and aggregation.
Panorama Management for NGFWs
Use Panorama to manage all your firewalls irrespective of where they are: at the perimeter, in a data center or in the cloud. Use APIs and Dynamic Address Groups help you automate policy workflows that adapt to changes, such as additions, moves or deletions of servers. You can deploy Panorama as a virtual or physical appliance, or both, and use it only as a manager or Log Collector, or as both. When required, you can use Panorama Interconnect to scale your single pane of glass to tens of thousands of firewalls.