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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 all about how logging works and how to scale and set up the infrastructure to capture logs. You also learned some methods to send logs out to Palo Alto Networks logging appliances or cloud instances. You learned how to set up forwarding to syslog servers and send out emails on certain events. Finally, you learned how to leverage filters to drill down into detailed information so that you can quickly find what you need in the ACC and how to manage the built-in reports and create custom ones.

If you’re studying for the PCNSE, take note of the different ways in which logs can be forwarded to external devices (panorama, CDL, syslog, and so on) and be able to identify the different types of logs (traffic, threat, system logs, and so on).

In the next chapter, we will be learning how to set up site-to-site and GlobalProtect VPN tunnels and how to create custom applications and threats.