Course Overview
Successful completion of this five-day, instructor-led course should enhance the student’s understanding of how to configure and manage Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. The student should learn and get hands-on experience configuring, managing, and monitoring a firewall in a lab environment .
Course Objectives
- Configure and manage the essential features of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls
- Configure and manage Security and NAT policies to enable approved traffic to and from zones
- Configure and manage Threat Prevention strategies to block traffic from known and unknown IP addresses, domains, and URLs
- Monitor network traffic using the interactive web interface and firewall reports
Who Should Attend?
Security Engineers, Security Administrators, Security Operations Specialists, Security Analysts and Support Staff
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Agenda
1 - Palo Alto Networks Portfolio and Architecture
2 - Configuring Initial Firewall Settings
3 - Managing Firewall Configurations
4 - Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts
5 - Connecting the Firewall to Production Networks with Security Zones
6 - Creating and Managing Security Policy Rules
7 - Creating and Managing NAT Policy Rules
8 - Controlling Application Usage with App-ID
9 - Blocking Known Threats Using Security Profiles
10 - Blocking Inappropriate Web Traffic with URL Filtering
11 - Blocking Unknown Threats with Wildfire
12 - Controlling Access to Network Resources with User-ID
13 - Using Decryption to Block Threats in Encrypted Traffic
14 - Locating Valuable Information Using Logs and Reports
15 - What's Next in Your Training and Certification Journey