Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials: Configuration and Management Training Course

Introduction

• Overview of the Palo Alto Networks portfolio and architecture
• Understanding firewall architecture

Getting Started

• Configuring initial firewall settings
• Setting up management network configurations
• Activating the firewall
• Managing licenses and software updates

Managing Firewall Configurations

• Handling configuration management
• Viewing and monitoring firewall logs

Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts

• Managing firewall authentication and authorization protocols
• Creating a local firewall administrator account
• Establishing a non-local firewall administrator account
• Setting up a firewall administrator account for non-interactive login

Connecting the Firewall to Production Networks

• Mitigating threats through network segmentation
• Utilizing network interfaces and security zones
• Configuring Layer 3 interfaces and sub-interfaces
• Implementing virtual wire interfaces
• Setting up tap interfaces
• Using virtual routers
• Configuring loopback interfaces

Managing Security Policy Rules

• Creating and managing security policy rules
• Establishing and managing NAT policy rules
• Controlling application usage via app-ID

Blocking Threats

• Neutralizing threats using security and NAT policies
• Defending against packet- and protocol-based attacks
• Blocking threats originating from known malicious sources
• Identifying and blocking threats based on application detection
• Identifying and blocking threats based on user identity
• Identifying and blocking threats based on device identification
• Addressing unknown threats
• Identifying and blocking threats within encrypted traffic
• Preventing the use of stolen credentials
• Blocking threats through security profiles
• Filtering inappropriate web traffic using URL filtering
• Utilizing decryption to identify threats in encrypted traffic

Threat and Traffic Information

• Locating valuable insights using logs and reports
• Forwarding threat and traffic data to external services

Security Best Practices

Summary and Next Steps