Answers to the questions we hear most about Palo Alto Networks firewall consulting, fractional CTO services and how engagements work. Don’t see your question? Book a free consultation or contact us.
Palo Alto Firewall Consulting
A Palo Alto firewall consultant designs, deploys, migrates, reviews and maintains Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. At SK IT Solutions that includes architecture and deployment, migrations from other firewalls, health checks and rule cleanup, Panorama, GlobalProtect and Azure firewall work. See our Palo Alto firewall consulting services.
It depends on the number of firewalls, whether Panorama is involved and how complex the configuration is. We scope the work during a free initial consultation and provide a quote before any work begins. Learn what is included in a Palo Alto firewall health check.
Yes. We review whether the advisory affects your PAN-OS version and enabled features, recommend mitigations and plan the upgrade or hotfix. Advice on addressing critical vulnerabilities is part of our advisory services, and we publish a weekly Palo Alto security advisory roundup.
Yes. We plan migrations from Cisco ASA and other manufacturers’ firewalls, including discovery, policy and NAT conversion, VPN rebuilds, validation, cutover and post-cutover tuning. Read our ASA to Palo Alto migration outline.
Panorama is usually worth it when you manage several firewalls, have multiple administrators or need centralized logging. For a single high-availability pair with a small team, local management can be fine. See Panorama consulting.
Yes. Palo Alto Networks administrator training is one of our offerings, and it can be tailored to your own firewall configuration so your team learns the system they actually run.