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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

Advanced Protection

In this chapter, we will learn about advanced configuration features, such as custom applications and custom threats, and apply them to a policy, and we will review how zone protection and Denial of Service (DoS) protection can defend the network and individual resources from attackers.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Custom applications and application override
  • Custom threat signatures
  • Zone protection and DoS protection

In the following chapter we will learn how to create custom applications to identify internally created protocols or applications that do not match, or match a generic App-ID. We will also learn how to create our own threat signatures so we can block certain payloads. Lastly we’ll see how we can defend the firewall and backend systems from all sorts of packet-based attacks.