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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

User credential detection

With phishing being a significant attack vector, user education is a very hot topic in many corporations’ cybersecurity awareness programs. Being able to prevent users from sharing their credentials on an untrusted website is a good second line of defense in case a user is tricked into submitting credentials to a malicious site.

As you can see in the following screenshot, in the URL filtering security profile, there is a column called USER CREDENTIAL SUBMISSION. Any categories set to block will not allow users to submit credentials.

A user will not be allowed to log on if a site is categorized as belonging to the malware category and if malware is set to block for USER CREDENTIAL SUBMISSION.

Any category set to continue will first warn the user that they are submitting credentials to a site and will require acknowledgment of their actions. Any category set to alert (with logging) or allow will let the user submit their credentials:

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