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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

By : Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'
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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

By: Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'

Overview of this book

To safeguard against security threats, it is crucial to ensure that your organization is effectively secured across networks, mobile devices, and the cloud. 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. With this book, you'll understand Palo Alto Networks and learn how to implement essential techniques, right from deploying firewalls through to advanced troubleshooting. The book starts by showing you how to set up and configure the Palo Alto Networks firewall, helping you to understand the technology and appreciate the simple, yet powerful, PAN-OS platform. Once you've explored the web interface and command-line structure, you'll be able to predict expected behavior and troubleshoot anomalies with confidence. You'll learn why and how to create strong security policies and discover how the firewall protects against encrypted threats. In addition to this, you'll get to grips with identifying users and controlling access to your network with user IDs and even prioritize traffic using quality of service (QoS). The book will show you how to enable special modes on the firewall for shared environments and extend security capabilities to smaller locations. By the end of this network security book, you'll be well-versed with advanced troubleshooting techniques and best practices recommended by an experienced security engineer and Palo Alto Networks expert.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: First Steps and Basic Configuration
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Section 2: Advanced Configuration and Putting the Features to Work
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Section 3: Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Logging Service

With Logging Service, currently called Cortex Data Lake, logs are no longer sent to Panorama or a collector group, but instead go up into the cloud through a secure connection. This is a licensed feature, so every firewall that should log to the cloud will need to be outfitted with a license. Once the licensing is in order and Data Lake is properly set up at https://apps.paloaltonetworks.com/marketplace/cortex_data_lake, you can configure each firewall locally or through a Panorama template.

From Device | Setup | Management | Logging Service, you can select Enable Logging Service. As the following screenshot shows, you can also use Enable Duplicate Logging, which writes logs to Panorama or the log collectors and sends a copy to Cortex Data Lake. PA-5200 and PA-7000 can have multiple (up to 20) simultaneous connections to Cortex Data Lake. Enable Enhanced Application Logging will increase information gathered about applications and sends this to Cortex Data Lake....