About Best Practices and Recommendations

Enhance your organization’s security posture with AIOps by identifying deviations from Cisco Secure Firewall best practices. Run assessments on your devices, generate reports, and receive insights that guide you toward optimal performance.

• Assessment: Evaluates your firewall configuration across multiple categories. Each check determines alignment with Cisco Secure Firewall best practices. The report summarizes the total number of checks performed. It categorizes the results as Passed or Requires review.

  Checks that require review indicate deviations that could impact firewall efficiency and security. Each failed check presents an opportunity for improvement. Addressing these checks contributes directly to optimizing firewall performance.

• Recommendation: Provides specific recommendations to address identified issues, ensuring optimal firewall performance. These include detailed information such as the nature of the problem, symptoms, impact, and required actions.

The best practices and recommendations checks are developed with input from Cisco's Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and Customer Experience (CX) teams. This input helps address trending issues, incorporate industry best practices, and enhance the reliability of recommendations. Implement these recommendations to resolve issues, align with best practices, and optimize firewall performance.

Key Features

Feature	Description
Automated assessments	Runs periodic evaluations of firewall devices against Cisco best practices.
Checks summary	Displays how many checks passed and highlights those requiring review.
Trend visualization	Shows the number of checks over time, helping you compare passed and failed checks across assessment cycles.
Device reports	Provides device-specific results and percentage of improvement potential.
Review category and check control	Enable or disable review categories or individual checks for future assessments.