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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

The Application Command Center

As opposed to reports that run on a daily basis, the ACC is a ‘live’ correlation tool that lets you get a quick look into what is happening in your network by using simple graphs that you can drill down into for more information. There are four default tabs:

  • Network Activity, which gives you an overview of all the applications seen in the specified timeframe, their byte count, the session count, the threat count, and the number of users. If you scroll down, you will see more detailed source and destination graphs and which rules have been hit most.
  • Threat Activity gives you a breakdown of all the types of threats and how many times they were seen.
  • Blocked Activity shows which applications have been blocked due to threats, content, or URL actions.
  • Tunnel Activity is used to report on tunnel inspection for GRE, GPRS, and non-encrypted IPSec.

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