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

• Overseeing configuration management
• Viewing and monitoring firewall logs

Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts

• Handling firewall authentication and authorization
• Creating local firewall administrator accounts
• Setting up non-local firewall administrator accounts
• Establishing accounts 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
• Deploying virtual routers
• Configuring loopback interfaces

Managing Security Policy Rules

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

Blocking Threats

• Preventing threats through security and NAT policies
• Defending against packet- and protocol-based attacks
• Blocking threats from known malicious sources
• Mitigating threats by identifying specific applications
• Blocking threats by identifying users
• Preventing threats by identifying devices
• Addressing unknown threats
• Securing encrypted traffic from threats
• Preventing the use of compromised credentials
• Blocking threats using security profiles
• Filtering inappropriate web traffic via URL filtering
• Utilizing decryption to block threats in encrypted traffic

Threat and Traffic Information

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

Security Best Practices

Summary and Next Steps