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Best Practice Assessment

Best Practice Assessment (BPA) Tool — The BPA for next-generation firewalls and Panorama evaluates a device’s configuration by measuring the adoption of capabilities, validating whether the policies adhere to best practices, and providing recommendations and instructions for how to remediate failed best practice checks. This page will provide more information about this feature.

BPA transition to AIOps for NGFW

AIOps for NGFW replaced the Best Practice Assessment (BPA) and Configuration Wizard on July 17, 2023.

Customers can continue to view their BPA history in the Customer Support Portal and Customer Success Site until December 31, 2023.

Contact your Palo Alto Networks Sales and Support teams for AIOps for NGFW inquiries and product support.

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Blogs

Select Relevant BPA Check

10-11-2022 — Select Relevant BPA Check At Palo Alto Networks, we understand that certain aspects of the Best Practice Assessment (BPA) report might not be relevant to customers without context of their use c...

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Best Practice Assessment New Executive Summary

09-29-2022 — Best Practice Assessment Executive Summary Best Practice Assessment (BPA) Executive Summary is a brief introduction of your network security posture and how it’s aligned with your business need...

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Best Practice Assessment Executive Summary Risk Assessment

09-29-2022 — Best Practice Assessment Executive Summary Risk Assessment The cyber security incidents continue to increase and strengthen, big and small businesses are more vulnerable than ever to cybercri...

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Sample Documents

Sample Prisma Access Health Check BPA Report (html format)

06-07-2022 — An html file provides Prisma Access health summary along with security capability feature adoption. Addition of Prisma Access health check capability in BPA report is a great way to look at the sec...

Tags: BPA BPA Report html Prisma Access Health Checks
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BPA Report in HTML

07-15-2019 — A Sample BPA report as an HTML file can process your whole configuration to provide the security capability feature adoption across all devices and validate if you are aligning to security best pra...

Tags: BPA Report html panorama
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Best Practice Checks spreadsheet - Panorama Example

07-10-2019 — Sample of a failed BPA spreadsheet that lists all the failed checks in the configuration and provides its relevant details to fix it. This can be used as a progress tracker by updating the status c...

Tags: best practice assessment BPA Failed BPA Checks panorama Panorama Example
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API

BPA API Token Self Service Request Capability

11-02-2020 — BPA users (external customers, internal, and partners) are now able to request their BPA API Token request from the Customer Success site.

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BPA API Zip Bundle

02-28-2020 —

In this article, find out how an API allows you to programmatically generate BPA data without the need to provide an entire TSF.

Tags: api BPA json Postman Collection
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Video Library

The Best Practice Assessment video library provides an in-depth look into each best practice check. You may choose from each of the categories below.

Frequently Asked Questions

Best Practice Assessment FAQ

06-30-2020 —

A compilation of frequently asked questions related to the Best Practice Assessment. This document will continue to grow as we encounter new questions from our customers.

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Release Notes

New Ransomware URL Filtering Category (BPA Version 7.3.0)

11-08-2022 — New Ransomware URL Filtering Category Starting September 27, 2022, Palo Alto Networks started to publish URLs into the newly introduced category “Ransomware” available with content release versi...

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BPA Release Notes (Version 6.4.0)

07-27-2022 — BPA Release Notes (Version 6.4.0) Starting BPA Version 6.0.0 Prisma Access BPA report will provide Health Check information about your Prisma Access. Health checks are essential in establishing...

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Discussions

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