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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

Deploying a firewall in Azure from the Marketplace

Very differently from a locally deployed VM firewall, you do not need to find an appropriate installation package from the support portal, but instead need to go through the Marketplace.

From the home screen, type ‘marketplace’ in the search bar and click Marketplace when it appears in the search results.

Once in the Marketplace, search for palo alto vm and select VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall from Palo Alto from the available options, as illustrated in the next screenshot:

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Figure 14.3: Selecting the VM series NGFW

On the next screen, you will be presented with the licensing options, as you can see in the following screenshot. For the following examples, I will select Bundle 1 PayGo. Regardless of the bundle selection, the next steps will all be identical. Select the appropriate licensing plan and click Create:

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Figure 14.4: Microsoft Azure VM series licensing options

After selecting...