Managing complex security environments often leads to sprawling policy rulebases, making efficient administration and auditing extremely difficult. Policy Rulebase Tag Management solves this challenge by allowing your security administrators to easily categorize and organize your policy rules. Tags enable security administrators to quickly identify the purpose, function, or ownership of any policy rule, fostering a clearer understanding of your organization's overall security posture. Policy Rulebase Management Using Tags ensures administrators maintain precision and control regardless of the scale of their network security infrastructure.

After assigning tags to policy rules, security administrators can use the integrated Tag Browser to visually group and manage your policy rulebase. This organization streamlines common operational procedures and helps improve efficiency. For instance, your security administrators can now add, delete, or move sets of related policies more efficiently than navigating a flattened rule hierarchy. Furthermore, security administrators can filter the policy rulebase using one or more tag search criteria, dramatically narrowing the list of displayed rules for precise management. Importantly, viewing the rulebase using these visual tags does not alter the fundamental rule evaluation order, preserving security integrity/

Palo Alto Networks supports Policy Rulebase Management Using Tags across all policy rulebases for your Panorama® management server and standalone NGFW running PAN-OS 10.2.5 or later 10.2 release or PAN-OS 11.0.3 or later 11.0 release. If you manage NGFW using a Panorama, you can centrally create and assign these organization tags.