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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

Setting up a captive portal

A captive portal is a service that runs on the firewall and intercepts web sessions to have a user identify themselves. This can be a good addition to your user identification capabilities for unsupported operating systems that do not log on to the network, or guests that come into your network that you want to be able to identify.

It can also help pick up “strays”; for instance, a laptop may be used to roam a campus and hop SSIDs and access points, and it may be assigned a new IP address without generating a new logon event on Active Directory. At this moment, the user becomes unknown and a captive portal can be triggered to have the user log in manually.

To set up a captive portal, we will first need to be able to authenticate users, which we will cover in the next section.

Authenticating users

To be able to authenticate users, we need to create an authentication profile that manages which protocol and server will be used...