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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, we reviewed a couple of handy tools that can be set up to augment an existing Syslog or SIEM solution. We looked at tools that provide an administrator with some quick and easy ways to perform and automate some management and monitoring tasks without needing to depend on cumbersome monitoring portals. You learned how to access the API section of the firewall and Panorama so that you can easily find the commands you need to set up automation. You are now also able to set up your very own threat intelligence server that can aggregate multiple data flows into easy-to-use security rule objects.

Congratulations, you have made it to the end! I want to thank you for sticking with me all the way here. Hopefully, you’ve learned a lot and have been able to impress a few people left and right with your new skills. It is my sincere hope you thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and will keep it by your side as a trusted companion.