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A network security engineer wants to prevent resource-consumption issues on the firewall. Which strategy is consistent with decryption best practices to ensure consistent performance?

The correct answer is B. Use PFS in a Decryption profile for higher-priority and higher-risk traffic, and use less processor-. If firewall resources are an issue, use stronger decryption for higher-priority traffic and use less processor-intensive decryption to decrypt and inspect lower-priority traffic until you can increase the available resources…

Submitted by mateo_ar· Apr 18, 2026Deploy and Configure

Question

A network security engineer wants to prevent resource-consumption issues on the firewall. Which strategy is consistent with decryption best practices to ensure consistent performance?

Options

  • AUse RSA in a Decryption profile tor higher-priority and higher-risk traffic, and use less processor-
  • BUse PFS in a Decryption profile for higher-priority and higher-risk traffic, and use less processor-
  • CUse Decryption profiles to downgrade processor-intensive ciphers to ciphers that are less
  • DUse Decryption profiles to drop traffic that uses processor-intensive ciphers

How the community answered

(15 responses)
  • A
    7% (1)
  • B
    73% (11)
  • C
    13% (2)
  • D
    7% (1)

Explanation

If firewall resources are an issue, use stronger decryption for higher-priority traffic and use less processor-intensive decryption to decrypt and inspect lower-priority traffic until you can increase the available resources. https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-admin/decryption/prepare-to-deploy- decryption/size-the-decryption-firewall-deployment

Topics

#Decryption Profiles#Performance Optimization#Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)#SSL Decryption

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