Mastering Palo Alto Networks

Dominate and take control of all the features that Palo Alto firewalls can offer to protect and secure your network

4.37 (1868 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Network & Security
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8,981
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9 hours
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Dec 2019
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$69.99
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What you will learn

Implement Palo Alto NGFW profiles and policies such as URL Filtering, App-ID, Antivirus and DoS to leverage Palo Alto's stateful security protection

Enable IPsec Tunnel based VPNs and SSL-VPN configurations (Globalprotect VPN) for a cost-effective and scalable remote connectivity solution

Configure dynamic and static routing process in Palo Alto's virtual routers and configure Network Address Translations

Multi-Tenant or Multi-Context Deployment scenarios providing logical segmentation between Virtual firewall instances in a traffic and control-plane standpoint

Highly available Active-Active and Active-Standby configurations to provide always-on redundant firewall policing, inspection and routing services

Enable Load Balancing and Floating Virtual IPs to leverage hardware resources and scale the firewall network architecture

Perform day-to-day firewall monitoring and maintenance tasks such as firewall updates, PAN-OS firewall upgrades, and backup and recovery procedures

Integrate Palo Alto firewalls into Panorama for central firewall management operations

Description

Network security is not a choice; it’s a must! Palo Alto Networks is one of the top firewall platform choices when it comes to protecting and securing all your critical on-premise and cloud infrastructures. That said, it’s highly probable that you—as a Network Security Engineer—is or will be managing or deploying one in your own or your customers’ environments.

This training guide will help you fully understand what tools, features, and options your Palo Alto firewalls can offer to protect and enhance visibility in your network traffic. It has been developed by someone who understands that learning every possible aspect of a technology platform can consume precious time.

Why is this course perfect for you? It will get you from zero to hero in no time, so you can take full advantage of all of the features that the Palo Alto firewall platform has to offer. From initial policy configurations to configuring Nat and security rules to performing Active-Active highly available clusters, you’ll learn all there is required to set it up like a pro!

After completing this training guide, you’ll feel confident that you can take full advantage of all of the features of Palo Alto firewall and most importantly, keep the bad guys out of your network.

About the Author

Rene Cardona is a Network Solutions Architect with over 8 years of experience in core data centers and security infrastructure designs, architecture, consulting, and implementations. He has performed many security and data center architecture refreshes for major U.S. corporations in the logistics, retail, healthcare, and education fields.

He has provided expert insights during migrations from firewall platform vendors such as Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, and Checkpoint. His vast proficiency experience ranges from Hyper-Converged Datacenter Environments, VXLAN, SDN, SD-WAN and Multi-Datacenter High Availability (MDHA) to Network Security (firewalls, Network Admission Control, and Network Security Architectures). He is currently in charge of securing one of the biggest shipping container terminals in the United States.

Content

Getting Started in PAN-OS 8

The Course Overview
Welcome to Pan-OS 8
Dashboard Introduction
Console-Based Administration
Device Management
Test Your Knowledge

Firewall Objects: Addresses, Services, and Groups

Address Objects and Groups
Service Objects and Groups
Application Objects and Groups
PAN Application Research Center
User Objects and Groups
LDAP Authentication and Remote Users and Groups
Test Your Knowledge

Firewall Security Zones, Interface Types, and V-Wires

Firewall Security Zones
Interface Type
V-Wires
Test Your Knowledge

Security Policies, Routing Contexts, and NAT

Security Policies (Part One)
Security Policies (Part Two)
Routing Contexts: INET-VRTR
Routing Contexts: Servers-VRTR
Destination NAT (D-NAT)
Source NAT (S-NAT)
Test Your Knowledge

Next-Generation Firewall Features

Security Profiles Overview
Antivirus and Anti-Spyware Profiles
URL Filtering and File Blocking
Denial of Service Protection
Test Your Knowledge

High Availability Firewall Clustering and Virtual Systems

Introduction to HA and Firewall Clustering
Active/Standby High Availability (Part One)
Active/Standby High Availability (Part Two)
Active/Active HA Clustering
Virtual IP Load Balancing with ARP Sharing and Floating IPs
Virtual Systems
Test Your Knowledge

IPSec VPN Tunnels and GlobalProtect

PAN-OS VPN Tunneling Options
IPSec Site-to-Site VPN (Tunnel Mode)
IPSec Site-to-Site VPN Interface Mode
GlobalProtect Remote Access VPN Portal
GlobalProtect Gateway
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Management and Maintenance Operations

Performing PAN-OS Software Upgrades
Configuration Revisions, Backups, and Restores
Recovering Palo Alto Firewalls Using the Console
Central Palo Alto Firewall Management with Panorama
Test Your Knowledge

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Reviews

Wenbin
October 11, 2023
This trainning covers core parts of the Palo Alto firewall settings. However, it would be good to have a PDF/PPT as training materials.
Omar
January 16, 2023
it's ok for general knowledge about Palo alto in video 17. he didn't set the static VR info to show how the initial static routing (uplink to the internet, next hop, ip address etc) it's just frustrating when you have a lab setup to get an uplink to the internet and he just say set it later and the next vr jumps to ospf.
Pioneer
October 8, 2022
Great presentation and communication, providing helpful high level coverage of Palo Alto firewall concepts.
Antonio
September 5, 2022
This course was informational and got a lot of good tips, best practices and ways to install, configure and apply various settings on Palo Alto Firewalls.
Sonal
August 28, 2022
Very helpful and these videos has covered most of the important features related to Palo Alto. Thank you
Izaan
August 1, 2022
The content is okay not much informative. It would be good if the tutor can share some more examples with proper diagram.
Sinisa
May 31, 2022
The basic topics are covered, which is good. Sometimes too fast when it is not necessary and vice versa.
Austin
April 25, 2022
This course goes over the necessary topics to better understand Palo Alto firewalls. I would rate this as a decent course. There are some examples of the instructor making things a bit more confusing than they need to be (example: explaining ingress and egress interfaces...this explanation was not good), but if you use other resources along with this course in your studies, you should be able to get a pretty good picture of how things work and will be ready to take a Palo certification exam.
Jason
April 16, 2022
not enough detail on most things, very specific and jumps/skips around like crazy. not recommended for anyone imo.
Daniel
March 31, 2022
This course is very thorough, clear and concise. I can't recommend it enough. He makes the subjects/topics seem easy which is a very good characteristic of a great instructor/teacher. It's also broken down in a way that I can always return to a particular task should I need a refresher or actually do something at work. It's really hands on!
Vinod
March 23, 2022
Course is really helpful for my next interview, I am trying to grasp all the possible knowledge from this. Thanks
Phyoe
December 26, 2021
Very informative on all topics and well prepared curriculam with configuration examples.I learned a lot and now time to get my hand dirty. thanks a lot.
Mandeep
October 15, 2021
Likes the course material and explanation...feel connected with Tutor whole time and understandable whole time. Only wishing if this is sufficient to start with PA :-)
Pallav
October 11, 2021
Awesome lecture, just you need to learn basic things of PA by own and after this lecture you will be master. It’s name proves it’s content
Boyd
September 1, 2021
Bought this course to help out with understanding Palo Alto firewalls for my new position. Excellent course so far. The instructor goes over everything very clearly and it is very easy to follow the topics.

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