Mastering Palo Alto Networks

Dominate and take control of all the features that Palo Alto firewalls can offer to protect and secure your network

Created by: Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion

What Will I Learn?

• Implement Palo Alto NGFW profiles and policies such as URL Filtering, App-ID, Antivirus and DoS to leverage Palo Alto's stateful security protection
• Enable IPsec Tunnel based VPNs and SSL-VPN configurations (Globalprotect VPN) for a cost-effective and scalable remote connectivity solution
• Configure dynamic and static routing process in Palo Alto's virtual routers and configure Network Address Translations
• Multi-Tenant or Multi-Context Deployment scenarios providing logical segmentation between Virtual firewall instances in a traffic and control-plane standpoint
• Highly available Active-Active and Active-Standby configurations to provide always-on redundant firewall policing, inspection and routing services
• Enable Load Balancing and Floating Virtual IPs to leverage hardware resources and scale the firewall network architecture
• Perform day-to-day firewall monitoring and maintenance tasks such as firewall updates, PAN-OS firewall upgrades, and backup and recovery procedures
• Integrate Palo Alto firewalls into Panorama for central firewall management operations

Requirements

• Reqiured general knowledge of network topics such as access control lists, routing, and network address translations (NAT)

Target audience

• This training session is for individuals with general knowledge of network topics such as access control lists, routing, and network address translations (NAT) who would like to expand their skill set to deploy and administer Palo Alto firewalls.