Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials: Configuration and Management Training Course

Introduction

• Overview of the Palo Alto Networks portfolio and architecture
• Firewall architecture

Getting Started

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

Managing Firewall Configurations

• Overseeing configurations
• Viewing and monitoring firewall logs

Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts

• Handling firewall authentication and authorization
• 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 via network segmentation
• Utilizing network interfaces and security zones
• Implementing Layer 3 interfaces and sub-interfaces
• Employing virtual wire interfaces
• Configuring tap interfaces
• Using virtual routers
• Setting up loopback interfaces

Managing Security Policy Rules

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

Blocking Threats

• Preventing threats via security and NAT policies
• Stopping packet- and protocol-based attacks
• Blocking threats originating from known malicious sources
• Identifying and blocking threats based on applications
• Identifying and blocking threats based on users
• Identifying and blocking threats based on devices
• Detecting and blocking unknown threats
• Securing threats within encrypted traffic
• Preventing the use of stolen credentials
• Blocking threats using security profiles
• Filtering inappropriate web traffic via URL filtering
• Leveraging decryption to identify 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