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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

Configuring group mapping

If you are able to identify users on your network, you are also able to create security rules to allow or limit their access to certain resources. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can easily be enforced by binding LDAP groups to security policies, granting members of a certain organization within your company exclusive and reliable access to the resources they need wherever they go.

To get started, we need to create an LDAP profile so we can fetch group information. Go to Device | Server Profiles | LDAP and create a new profile. You will need one LDAP profile per domain in a multidomain or forest configuration.

There needs to be at least one server, but there can be up to four for redundancy. Don’t forget to change the port (636 should be the default, 389 for legacy unencrypted systems) if you’re going to use TLS encryption:

  1. Add at least one server by IP or FQDN and set the appropriate port (389 unencrypted, 636 for TLS).
  2. ...