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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

Managing Firewalls through Panorama

In this chapter, we will learn about Panorama, a central management platform that enables an administrator to manage firewalls located in different locations or in the cloud in real time. You will learn how to create shared objects and policies, as well as how to use device groups to add some region- or purpose-based policies that can be deployed to multiple similar firewalls. You will also learn how to manage logs and push content updates from one single location and keep track of your inventory.

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

  • Setting up Panorama
  • Device groups
  • Setting up templates and template stacks
  • Panorama management

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to centrally manage all of your firewalls and consolidate shared configuration among groups of devices.