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Standards and Frameworks - Palo Alto NGFW

Industry Standards

  • NIST SP 800-41 Rev 1 - Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy
  • NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 - SC-7 (Boundary Protection), AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement)
  • CIS Controls v8 - Control 4 (Secure Configuration), Control 9 (Email and Web Browser Protections), Control 13 (Network Monitoring and Defense)
  • PCI DSS v4.0 - Requirement 1 (Install and Maintain Network Security Controls)
  • ISO 27001:2022 - A.13.1 (Network Security Management)

Palo Alto Specific Standards

  • PAN-OS Security Configuration Benchmark - CIS Benchmark for Palo Alto firewalls
  • Best Practices for Completing NGFW Deployment - docs.paloaltonetworks.com
  • Security Policy Best Practices - Application-based rules, zone segmentation
  • SSL Decryption Best Practices - Certificate management, excluded categories
  • Threat Prevention Best Practices - Profile configuration for AV, AS, VP, URL, WildFire

Compliance Mapping

Control PAN-OS Feature
Access Control (AC-4) Security Policies with App-ID and User-ID
Boundary Protection (SC-7) Zone-based architecture with inter-zone policies
Malicious Code Protection (SI-3) WildFire, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware profiles
Audit and Accountability (AU-3) Traffic, Threat, URL, WildFire logging
Encryption (SC-8) SSL/TLS decryption and inspection
DoS Protection (SC-5) Zone Protection profiles with flood thresholds