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.

Managing Firewall Configurations

• Handling configuration management.
• Viewing and monitoring firewall logs.

Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts

• Overseeing firewall authentication and authorization.
• Creating local firewall administrator accounts.
• Creating non-local firewall administrator accounts.
• Setting up firewall administrator accounts for non-interactive login.

Connecting the Firewall to Production Networks

• Threat mitigation via network segmentation.
• Utilizing network interfaces and security zones.
• Configuring Layer 3 interfaces and sub-interfaces.
• Employing virtual wire interfaces.
• Configuring tap interfaces.
• Utilizing virtual routers.
• Configuring 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

• Threat blocking using security and NAT policies.
• Preventing packet- and protocol-based attacks.
• Blocking threats from known malicious sources.
• Threat mitigation via application identification.
• Threat mitigation via user identification.
• Threat mitigation via device identification.
• Handling unknown threats.
• Blocking threats within encrypted traffic.
• Preventing the use of stolen credentials.
• Threat blocking via security profiles.
• Filtering inappropriate web traffic using URL filtering.
• Utilizing decryption to identify and block threats in encrypted traffic.

Threat and Traffic Information

• Leveraging logs and reports to locate critical information.
• Forwarding threat and traffic data to external services.

Security Best Practices

Summary and Next Steps