Palo Alto Optimization Services
Get more from your existing Palo Alto deployment. Policy cleanup, threat-prevention tuning, runbook refresh.
What's included.
- Policy hygiene: dead rule removal, rule consolidation, shadowing analysis
- Threat-prevention profile review and tuning
- Decryption coverage expansion
- User-ID and App-ID coverage audit
- SIEM integration validation
- Operations runbook refresh
How CWS runs the engagement.
Optimization engagements typically run 3-5 weeks. CWS senior engineer reviews live configuration with read-only access, identifies optimization opportunities, executes approved changes through customer change-management process, and updates documentation.
Cadence, team, and reviews.
Single engineer, 3-5 weeks, change-controlled work.
How CWS prices this service.
Fixed-fee or T&M depending on scope.
Want a fixed-fee quote? Talk to a CWS engineer.
Senior bench, certified engineers, bilingual delivery.
Optimization engagements often pay for themselves through reduced operational overhead and improved security posture without requiring net-new licenses or hardware.
Frequently asked: Palo Alto Optimization Services
How much policy cleanup is typical?
Most production Palo Alto rule bases have 20-40 percent dead or shadowed rules after multi-year operations. Cleanup typically reduces rule count by that amount with no functional change.