Palo Alto Networks, done by people who actually run it.
Our PAN practice is anchored by Jack Miller, ADK Cyber's CISO, with hands-on depth across PAN-OS, Panorama, and Cortex XDR. We architect, deploy, migrate, and tune the platform so it actually delivers the security outcomes you bought it for.
The full PAN portfolio.
Most engagements touch two or three of these. We can lead any of them end-to-end.
PA-Series, VM-Series, CN-Series
Hardware appliance design, virtual firewall deployments in VMware/Hyper-V/cloud, and CN-Series for containerized workloads. HA design, routing integration, decryption planning.
Panorama centralized management
Greenfield Panorama design, device-group and template hierarchy that scales, log collector planning, and migrations from local-managed to centralized.
Cortex XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR
Endpoint deployment, alert tuning, exclusions done right, integrations with identity and email security, and SOAR playbook design for repeatable response.
Prisma Access & Prisma Cloud
Mobile-user and remote-network design for Prisma Access (SASE), and posture management plus runtime protection across major clouds with Prisma Cloud.
Strata Cloud Manager
Unified management onboarding, SD-WAN where it fits, AIOps recommendations triage, and integrating SCM with existing Panorama estates.
Health checks & rule cleanup
Policy hygiene, shadowed/unused rule cleanup, App-ID conversion from port-based, decryption coverage gaps, and threat-prevention tuning.
How we get hired.
Greenfield deployment
Architecture, sizing, build, cutover. From a single PA-Series pair to multi-site Panorama-managed estates.
Migration from another vendor
Legacy firewall to PAN with proper App-ID conversion — not just a translated rulebase that re-creates the old problems.
Policy optimization
Shadow rule audits, rule consolidation, App-ID and User-ID adoption, decryption rollout, and threat-prevention tuning that actually reduces noise.
Panorama design or rebuild
Device-group and template hierarchies built to scale — not the organic mess that grows when nobody planned the structure.
Cortex XDR rollout & tuning
Endpoint coverage, exclusion strategy, IOC and BIOC tuning, response actions, and SOC integration.
Threat hunting & detection tuning
Hunting against your own telemetry, detection content tuned to your environment, and BIOCs that catch what the defaults miss.
A misconfigured Palo Alto firewall is still a Palo Alto firewall — but it is a very expensive one. The platform's value comes from App-ID, User-ID, decryption, and threat-prevention features that all require thoughtful design and ongoing care. We have seen too many seven-figure investments running essentially port-based ACLs.
Have a Palo Alto project on the horizon?
From a clean greenfield deployment to a tangled Panorama you inherited — let's talk.