This solution guide details how to architect a secure internet access policy using Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access and NGFWs. It addresses modern challenges such as encrypted traffic, inconsistent policies, and cloud migration. It advocates a layered, application-based policy model with centralized management via Strata Cloud Manager. Security features include SSL decryption, advanced threat prevention (WildFire, URL filtering), App-ID/Device-ID inspection, and dynamic policy tagging. The document outlines detailed rule configurations for different user scenarios (on-prem, mobile, SaaS), providing a best-practice framework to ensure consistent, scalable protection for web access across diverse user environments.

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