Strata Cloud Manager
Dashboard: Best Practices
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Dashboard: Best Practices
The best practices dashboard and reports measure your
security posture against Palo Alto Networks’ best practice guidance.
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What does this dashboard show you?
The dashboard shows aggregated data per Prisma Access and NGFW/Panorama
associated with your tenant.
The best practices dashboard measures your security posture against Palo Alto
Networks’ best practice guidance. Importantly, the best practices assessment
includes checks for the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security
Controls (CSC). CSC checks are called out separately from other best practice
checks, so you can easily pick out and prioritize updates that will bring you up
to CSC compliance.
The best practice dashboard is divided into five sections:
- SummaryGives you a comprehensive view of all the failed checks for a device across the configuration types (Security, Network, Identity, and Service Setup), View historical trend charts for BPA checks and assess your best practice adoption rate for key feature areas.
- SecurityShows the rules, rulebases, or profiles that are failing best practice and CSC checks for the selected device and location. When available, CLI remediations allow you to resolve issue with your policy rules. CLI remediations are generated using TSF data you upload when generating an On-Demand BPA report.
- RulebasesLooks at how your policy is organized, and whether configuration settings that apply across many rules align with best practices (including CSC checks).
- RulesShows you the rules failing best practice and CSC checks. See where you can take quick action to fix failed checks. Rules are sorted based on session count, so you can start by reviewing and updating the rules that are impacting the most traffic.
- ProfilesShows you how your profiles stack up against best practices, including CSC checks. Profiles perform advanced inspection for traffic matched to a security or decryption rule.
- IdentityShows whether the authentication enforcement settings (authentication rule, authentication profile, and authentication portal) for a device meet the best practices and comply with CSC checks.
- NetworkChecks whether the application override rules and network settings align with best practice and CSC checks.
- Service SetupSee how the subscriptions you have enabled on your devices are aligning with the best practice and CSC checks. You can review the WildFire setup, GlobalProtect portal and GlobalProtect gateway configurations here and fix the failed checks.
This dashboard supports reports. These icons,
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in the top right of a dashboard indicate that
reports are supported for this dashboard. You can share, download, and schedule
reports that cover the data this dashboard displays.
How can you use the data from the dashboard?
While best practice guidance aims to help you bolster your security posture,
findings in this report can also help you to identify areas where you can make
changes to more effectively manage your environment.