Book Image

Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By : Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'
Book Image

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)
16
Other Books You May Enjoy
17
Index

Taking Control of Sessions

In this chapter, you will see how you can ensure business-critical or latency-sensitive applications do not run out of bandwidth and less important applications are prevented from consuming too much. You will learn how to bypass the routing table and make exceptions for certain sessions, as well as how to decrypt encrypted sessions and look within them to determine actual applications and stop threats.

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

  • Controlling the bandwidth with quality-of-service policies
  • Leveraging SSL decryption to look inside encrypted sessions
  • Redirecting sessions over different paths using policy-based forwarding

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to look inside encrypted TLS sessions so threats can be stopped, manipulate how sessions are forwarded regardless of the routing table, and make the best of your available bandwidth.