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Understanding the Best Practice Assessment (BPA) Tool

Understanding the Best Practice Assessment (BPA) Tool

Published on ‎04-22-2021 10:43 AM by | Updated on ‎11-23-2021 01:37 PM

Recording now available!

 

What is the Best Practice Assessment Tool (BPA) and how do I use it? 

In addition to an overview of the components of the tool and the interface, as an attendee you will learn how to use it to compare existing policies and configurations with best practices, assess the maturity and effectiveness of your security posture, and see how you are applying your security policies across the organization.

 

Agenda:

  • How to access the BPA
  • Create a BPA
  • How to use the BPA to identify security gaps
  • Help improve your security posture

Join us to exchange experiences, as well as the best practices in using the BPA for Next-Generation Firewalls and Panorama.

 

Featured Experts:

 

Nick Curtis - @DawgsFan: Senior Program Manager for the Services Innovation Engineering Team.  Nick has been on the team for 2 years working alongside a very talented group of product managers and engineers.  One of the programs that SIET owns is the Best Practice Assessment tool.  

 

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Chadd Christensen - @cchristiansen: Product Manager for the Services Innovation Engineering Team.  Chadd has been with the SIET team for 2 years, primarily responsible for Strata telemetry.  Prior to SIET, Chadd spent 6 years with Palo Alto Networks in various roles within Global Customer Support.

 

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Featured Guests
cchristiansen
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DawgsFan
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Start:
Thu, Apr 29, 2021 08:00 AM PDT
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9 Comments
jdelio
L7 Applicator
‎04-22-2021 11:13 AM
‎04-22-2021 11:13 AM

Love seeing the start of these LIVE events. Look forward to it. 

LIVEcommunity team member
Stay Secure,
Joe
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jdelio
L7 Applicator
‎04-29-2021 07:38 AM
‎04-29-2021 07:38 AM

Just a reminder, if you have any questions, you can post them here to be answered during the event OR you can use the online chat in the event.
We will also update this with all recording information once the event is complete.

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Joe
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jadickson
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‎05-05-2021 01:47 PM
‎05-05-2021 01:47 PM

Question & Answer (Q&A) Highlights

Q: Where is the BPA data stored? (asked by Kelly Welch)

A: Only metadata is stored by Palo Alto Networks to track adoption trends and industry benchmarks. However, we do not store rule details or any sensitive customer information.

Jason Dickson | Sr. Digital Editor | LIVEcommunity Team
jadickson
L4 Transporter
‎05-05-2021 01:54 PM
‎05-05-2021 01:54 PM

Question & Answer (Q&A) Highlights

Q: Is there an example of BPA Prisma Access that you could share with me? (asked by @MonicaR )

A: Nick Curtis (@DawgsFan) answered this at 22:21 in the recording (see above). Under BPA report types, choose Prisma Access. It defaults to Strata.

Jason Dickson | Sr. Digital Editor | LIVEcommunity Team
jforsythe
Community Team Member
‎05-06-2021 09:18 AM
‎05-06-2021 09:18 AM

Question & Answer (Q&A) Highlights

Q: Can we use the BPA tool for a client demo?

A: Yes, feel free to download the sample documents located on our Best Practice Assessment (BPA) Tools page here: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/best-practice-assessment/ct-p/Best_Practice_Assessment

Thanks for reading!
agalindo
L4 Transporter
‎05-06-2021 09:33 AM
‎05-06-2021 09:33 AM

Question & Answer (Q&A) Highlights

Q: Are there plans for a “BPA on steroids” version so VARs can add more value to running the BPA vs the customer running it themselves (integration with autoassistant to find bugs etc.)? (asked by @reaper )

A: We have a very large BPA roadmap to expand capabilities, where it is accessed from, filtering options and more. If you have any questions or new feature enhancements, please reach out to us at bpa@paloaltonetworks.com

jennaqualls
Community Team Member
‎05-06-2021 09:38 AM
‎05-06-2021 09:38 AM

Question & Answer (Q&A) Highlights

Q: How do you save the detailed HTML page? (asked by @GregTaylor )

A: When you generate the BPA, you will receive the detailed html in the BPA bundle. The bundle will Include your detailed html, failed best practice checks and a copy of your executive summary. The Executive summary will be saved internally, but it is recommended that you save all of the contents in your bundle locally for access. We don’t save it internally due to security and privacy.

 

 

jennaqualls
Community Team Member
‎05-06-2021 10:14 AM
‎05-06-2021 10:14 AM

Thanks for asking your question @slevine !

 

Response: Another resource is Getting Started with the BPA (https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/10-0/bpa-getting-started.html).

jnathan
L2 Linker
In response to jennaqualls
‎04-12-2023 05:06 PM
‎04-12-2023 05:06 PM

I like this event! Great Initiative!

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