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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By : Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'
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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By: Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'

Overview of this book

Palo Alto Networks’ integrated platform makes it easy to manage network and cloud security along with endpoint protection and a wide range of security services. This book is an end-to-end guide to configure firewalls and deploy them in your network infrastructure. You will see how to quickly set up, configure and understand the technology, and troubleshoot any issues that may occur. This book will serve as your go-to reference for everything from setting up to troubleshooting complex issues. You will learn your way around the web interface and command-line structure, understand how the technology works so you can confidently predict the expected behavior, and successfully troubleshoot any anomalies you may encounter. Finally, you will see how to deploy firewalls in a cloud environment, and special or unique considerations when setting them to protect resources. By the end of this book, for your configuration setup you will instinctively know how to approach challenges, find the resources you need, and solve most issues efficiently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to set up site-to-site VPN tunnels and a client-to-site VPN with GlobalProtect. You can now not only provide connectivity but also scan the client machine for compliance and know how to control the user experience. You’ve also learned how to create custom applications and custom threats that will allow you to identify packets unique to your environment and take affirmative action, and we’ve learned how to set up zone and DoS protection to defend against all kinds of packet-based attacks.

In the next chapter, we will be getting our hands on some basic troubleshooting. We will learn about session details and how to interpret what is happening to a session.

If you’re preparing for the PCNSE, remember QoS rules are applied on the egress interface and how the classes apply to different profiles on different interfaces. Remember the implications of using an app override and what the benefits are of a custom application...