Take the assessment to uncover potential gaps across rule ownership, multicloud enforcement, visibility and operational control.
Your answers suggest firewall policy is being actively governed and kept closely aligned with your live environment. The priority now is protecting that alignment as new users, applications, sites and cloud workloads are introduced, so it stays verified rather than assumed.
Around
of breaches
Source: Global Incident Response Report 2026
are linked to preventable gaps such as misconfiguration and inconsistently applied controls, rather than advanced attacks. These gaps can appear even in well-managed environments.
Your answers point to drift in specific areas rather than across the board. That's the most common state we see, and the easiest to act on because the gaps are still contained.
One study found that 30% of firewall rules were completely unused, while more than 10% were redundant or shadowed. Both can make policies harder to manage and allow misconfigurations to go unnoticed, even when day-to-day operations appear normal.
Your answers suggest firewall policy has drifted from the environment it is meant to protect. That can make changes harder to assess, incidents slower to diagnose, and outdated or overly permissive rules easier to miss.
Start with rules that have not been reviewed recently, lack a clear business justification, or are no longer tied to an active application or service.
of breaches are linked to preventable gaps like misconfiguration and inconsistently applied controls, rather than novel attacker techniques. Your answers suggest some of those conditions may already be emerging in your environment.
Your answers gave you a read on where policy stands. The harder question is what that means for the next migration, audit, or consolidation on your roadmap.
We've put together seven working-session exercises, one per initiative type, each designed to surface policy debt before the initiative does. Pick the one that matches what's next on your plan and run it with your team.
Your environment will keep changing. New applications, AI, cloud workloads, users and sites mean firewall policy has to change with it.
Palo Alto Networks brings industry-leading security technology. Globalgig brings the architecture, deployment and ongoing management to make it work as part of your wider environment, not as another isolated security tool.
Together, we deliver one end-to-end solution, giving your team access to specialist expertise while taking the complexity of technology, vendors and day-to-day management off their plate.
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