Palo Alto Firewall Migration Services

Move to Palo Alto Networks without carrying old problems forward

We migrate organizations to Palo Alto Networks from most common competitor platforms, including Cisco, Fortinet and WatchGuard, as well as greenfield deployments. A migration is the best chance you will get to clean up years of accumulated policy, and the biggest risk is treating it as a straight copy.

Platforms we migrate from

• Cisco ASA and Firepower
• Fortinet FortiGate
• WatchGuard Firebox
• Other common firewall platforms
• Older Palo Alto hardware to new models or VM-Series

Our migration approach

• Discovery. Export and review the existing configuration, NAT, VPNs, routing and object usage, and identify rules with no hits.
• Conversion. Convert objects and policy with tooling, then review the result by hand. Automated conversion alone produces a Palo Alto firewall that behaves like the old one.
• Modernization. Move from port-based to application-based rules in stages, attach security profiles and remove what is no longer needed.
• Validation. Test critical flows, VPNs and NAT before cutover, and agree on a clear success checklist with application owners.
• Cutover. Execute in a planned window with a written runbook and a rehearsed rollback.
• Stabilization. Review logs and traffic after cutover, tune rules and hand off documentation.

What usually goes wrong, and how we avoid it

Most migration problems are predictable: NAT order differences, VPN peers that were never documented, applications identified differently than expected and rules that relied on implicit behavior of the old platform. We look for these during discovery so the cutover window is boring, which is exactly what it should be.

Related services

• Design & Deployment
• Health Checks & Policy Cleanup
• Panorama Management