Mastering Palo Alto Networks: Build, configure, and deploy network solutions for your infrastructure using features of PAN-OS, 2nd Edition
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Packt Publishing
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.
Review
"When reading Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition, every day is a learning day for me! While I have been working with Palo Alto Networks technologies for close to 10 years, the sheer depth of features and configuration combinations can become hard to comprehend. Tom Piens (aka Reaper) has always been a person that we, the consulting community, rely on when designing, troubleshooting, or validating complex designs. For me, the most significant appeal of the book is that Reaper has captured and consolidated all the critical design aspects, best practices, potential pitfalls, and troubleshooting guidance in a single resource."
--Seetal R Patel -Consulting Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
"Tom Piens' Mastering Palo Alto Networks is a phenomenal guide to PAN-OS based NGFWs whether you are just starting out and need to learn the fundamentals of bringing up your first firewall or you are a seasoned security professional who wants to improve your maintenance of your security deployment and are looking to optimize your policies or your troubleshooting of the deployment. His coverage of key GUI and CLI based configuration will become your go-to reference on most things PAN-OS based."
--David Dukinfield- 4G/5G Solutions Architect
About the Author
Tom has been active in the network security industry for over 20 years and has spent the last 12 years specializing in Palo Alto Networks technologies. In 2010 he joined Palo Alto Networks as the first international support engineer and later joined the LIVE community as knowledge base specialist, content creator and forum moderator under the pseudonym Reaper. In 2020 he started consulting and in 2021 he founded PANgurus, a private consultancy company focussed on Palo Alto Networks.
- Explore your way around the web interface and command line
- Discover the core technologies and see how to maximize your potential in your network
- Identify best practices and important considerations when configuring a security policy
- Connect to a freshly booted appliance or VM via a web interface or command-line interface
- Get your firewall up and running with a rudimentary but rigid configuration
- Gain insight into encrypted sessions by setting up SSL decryption
- Troubleshoot common issues, and deep-dive into flow analytics
- Configure the GlobalProtect VPN for remote workers as well as site-to-site VPN
The book is for network and security professionals, and administrators who want to bring in the power of Palo Alto Networks and firewalls to secure their networks. Engineers should have a good grasp of networking and routing protocols, basic knowledge of stateful or next-generation firewalls is helpful but not required.
- Understanding the Core Technologies
- Setting Up a New Device
- Building Strong Policies
- Taking Control of Sessions
- Services and Operational Modes
- Identifying Users and Controlling Access
- Managing Firewalls through Panorama
- Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama
- Logging and Reporting
- Virtual Private Networks
- Advanced Protection
- Troubleshooting Common Session Issues
- A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting
- Cloud based firewall deployment
- Supporting Tools
