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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, you learned how to configure the firewall so that it is able to work with DHCP-enabled ISPs and how to serve IP addresses to clients on local networks or relay DHCP for an internal server. You also learned how to set the firewall as a DNS proxy and ensure internal hosts resolve domain names efficiently and securely. You are now able to set up High Availability clusters in both Active/Passive and Active/Active modes and understand the differences and implications of both modes and know how to manage and maintain certificates. In a multi-tenant or segregated environment, you can leverage virtual systems to create multiple instances on a single hardware.

In the next chapter, we’ll take a closer look at the various methods to identify users and how group mapping can help build policies that enforce Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

If you’re preparing for the PCNSE, remember how to manage certificates and how and why to create a TLS profile...