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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 create security profiles and how to build a set of profiles that influence how your firewall processes threats. You learned how to create security profiles that leverage best practices and can add these to a default security profile group so that your security rule base starts off with a strong protection stance. You are also able to create complete security rules that leverage reusable objects, easy to identify tags, and are set to allow all desirable access based on application identification rather than ports. You can now make complex NAT policies that cater to the needs of your inbound and outbound connections.

If you’re studying for the PCNSE, take specific note of how the best practice security profiles are set with reset-both and single-packet packet capture for critical, high, and medium severity, while low and informational are set to default with no packet capture. Remember how zones play an important role in the original...