Configuration push latency often slows down essential network deployments and complex configuration updates across distributed NGFW. To enhance operational agility and speed, Strata Cloud Manager now optimizes communication protocols for configuration transfers. This crucial update introduces transparent compression for configuration exchanges.

When a security administrator pushes a configuration change from Strata Cloud Manager to a managed NGFW runningPAN-OS 11.2 or later release, Strata Cloud Manager compresses the XML configuration during transmission. This compression reduces the file size by at least 15% to significantly speeds up deployment times and reduces bandwidth utilization. Additionally, all NGFW responses back to Strata Cloud Manager, including commit status updates and data queries, are also compressed by at least 15%. This two-way compression is transparent to the user and does not affect the NGFW management or data processing functions.