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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

Threat intelligence with MineMeld

MineMeld is a tool previously developed by Palo Alto Networks that is currently “community-supported” as Palo Alto replaced it with a licensed product called Cortex XSOAR following the Demisto acquisition.

However, MineMeld is still a very useful tool as it is an extensible threat intelligence processing framework. This means it is able to ingest several threat intelligence feeds and aggregate the information so that you can feed it into the firewall as an additional protection vector, which is pretty cool.

The installation is straightforward, and you can even run it in a Docker container:

sudo docker pull paloaltonetworks/minemeld
sudo docker volume create minemeld-logs
sudo docker volume create minemeld-local
sudo docker run -dit --name minemeld --restart unless-stopped --tmpfs /run -v minemeld-local:/opt/minemeld/local -v minemeld-
logs:/opt/minemeld/log  -p 443:443 -p 80:80 paloaltonetworks/minemeld

MineMeld can...