Consortium | NGFW Integration and Optimization

Most organizations only use a fraction of the security capability built into their Palo Alto Networks firewall—leaving performance, protection, and ROI on the table. Misconfigurations, outdated policies, and limited feature activation can weaken defenses and slow down operations.

Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) Integration & Optimization ensures firewalls are configured for maximum security and performance through policy refinement, feature enablement, and alignment to identity- and segmentation-based Zero Trust principles. The result: greater protection and visibility without adding new products or increasing operational overhead.

Optimized, Best-Practice Firewall Policies

Firewall policies are re-engineered around least-privilege access, segmentation strategy, and real business workflows — not legacy configurations or one-off exceptions.

We streamline and validate rule hygiene, eliminate risky objects and “allow-any” patterns, segment business-critical traffic, and clean up years of technical debt.

Outcome: Reduced attack surface, fewer operational headaches, and greater confidence that the firewall reinforces — rather than slows down — the organization.

Comprehensive Advanced Security Feature Activation

Most organizations own advanced capabilities they’ve never fully turned on. We activate and tune threat prevention features including application awareness, decryption, DNS/URL filtering, SSL inspection, intrusion prevention, and automated signature updates — without harming user experience or throughput.

Outcome: High-risk traffic is blocked earlier, insider and external threats become more visible, and automated protections reduce response time and manual workload.

Before-and-After Firewall Health Metrics

Security leaders don’t just need improvement — they need proof. We show firewall maturity before vs. after optimization using metrics tied to risk reduction, performance, and feature usage.

Outcome: Leadership can justify program direction and spend, defend improvements in QBRs and budget cycles, and use clear KPIs to track continued progress over time.

Architecture-First Approach

Integrated with your stack

We evaluate and tune configurations through the lens of identity, endpoint, cloud, segmentation, and business requirements — ensuring the firewall becomes a coordinated control plane that reinforces your Zero Trust roadmap rather than an isolated security appliance.

Collaborative Delivery Model

Progress in every working session

You never wait until “the final document.” Every session delivers improvements you can track immediately. Together with your team, we fix issues in real time and build a prioritized, realistic action plan that is already partially complete by the end of the engagement.

Risk & ROI with MTM®

Value leadership can prove

Using Metrics That Matter®, we measure how optimization reduces risk exposure, shrinks high-risk traffic, improves performance, enhances feature utilization, and strengthens the return on your existing firewall investment — giving executives defensible evidence tied to financial and operational outcomes.

Next-Gen Firewall Integration and Optimization

Unlock the Full Value of Your Palo Alto Networks Firewall

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