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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

Building Strong Policies

In this chapter, you will get comfortable with configuring security profiles, building rule bases for security, and Network Address Translation (NAT). We will learn what each setting does, what its expected behavior is, and how it can be leveraged to lead to the desired outcome. Taking full control over all of the features available in the different rule bases will enable you to adopt a strong security stance.

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

  • Understanding and preparing security profiles
  • Understanding and building security rules
  • Setting up NAT in all possible directions

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to set up a complete ruleset that will ensure your users are able to reach the applications and resources they need, internally hosted servers can be reached from the internet, and any threats trying to slip through can be stopped in their tracks.