Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials: Configuration and Management Training Course

Introduction

• Overview of the Palo Alto Networks product suite and architecture
• Firewall architectural components

Initial Setup

• Setting up initial firewall parameters
• Configuring management network settings
• Enabling the firewall
• Administering licenses and software updates

Managing Firewall Configurations

• Handling configuration changes
• Reviewing and monitoring firewall logs

Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts

• Controlling firewall authentication and authorization
• Creating local firewall administrator accounts
• Creating non-local firewall administrator accounts
• Setting up firewall administrator accounts for non-interactive access

Integrating the Firewall into Production Networks

• Mitigating threats through network segmentation
• Utilizing network interfaces and security zones
• Implementing Layer 3 interfaces and sub-interfaces
• Deploying virtual wire interfaces
• Configuring Tap interfaces
• Employing virtual routers
• Setting up Loopback interfaces

Managing Security Policy Rules

• Developing and maintaining security policy rules
• Creating and managing NAT policy rules
• Regulating application usage via app-ID

Threat Mitigation

• Preventing threats through security and NAT policies
• Blocking packet and protocol-based attacks
• Blocking threats from identified malicious sources
• Mitigating threats by application identification
• Mitigating threats by user identification
• Mitigating threats by device identification
• Blocking unrecognized threats
• Preventing threats within encrypted traffic
• Preventing the use of compromised credentials
• Blocking threats via security profiles
• Filtering inappropriate web traffic using URL filtering
• Applying decryption to detect threats in encrypted traffic

Threat and Traffic Intelligence

• Extracting actionable insights from logs and reports
• Relaying threat and traffic data to external services

Security Best Practices

Conclusion and Next Steps