The NetSec Health Dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your organization's network security health across all user devices, branch sites and AI-Powered ADEM monitored applications. Previously, NGFW users lacked a unified way to understand the end-to-end health of users and applications across their organization. This dashboard enhances the existing SASE health dashboard by integrating the health and experience scores from both your Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) deployments and your Prisma Access (PA) environment into a single pane of glass. Currently, the dashboard shows unified digital experience insights from NGFW deployments for user devices only.

The interactive view in the dashboard shows the experience scores to highlight the status of user devices, sites, and applications in your organization as Good, Fair, and Poor. You can further drill down to analyze user-specific details, users’ browsing experience, network segments causing degradation, and open device incidents. For sites, you can review Prisma SD-WAN and third-party connectivity data and any related open incidents. For monitored applications, the dashboard shows application availability and critical end-to-end performance metrics.

Organizations require rapid, comprehensive threat intelligence but often struggle to leverage security advisories distributed in third-party formats like Snort and Suricata. This challenge leaves network defenses incomplete and vulnerable to emerging threats not yet covered by internal systems. Strata Cloud Manager now allows you to create custom application signatures that can detect, monitor, and prevent network-based attacks, based on Snort signatures and Suricata rules.

Snort and Suricata are third party open-source intrusion prevention system (IPS) tools that utilize specialized rule formats to identify potential threats. Because organizations that share threat intelligence often distribute security advisories using these rule formats, the additional coverage can reveal threats that might not be apparent on any single IPS system. The IPS Signature Converter functionality allows you to leverage these open-source rules for immediate threat protection on Palo Alto Networks Strata Cloud Manager by translating the IPS signatures from Snort and Suricata into custom threat signatures.

After the Snort or Suricata rules are converted, you can use these signatures to enforce security policies by incorporating the converted signatures into your Vulnerability Protection and Anti-Spyware Security Profiles.

By leveraging this conversion process, you can quickly adapt and implement a wide range of threat detection rules from the open-source community, enhancing your network's security posture with up-to-date and comprehensive threat intelligence.