We work with Palo Alto firewalls every day, so we’ve learned a lot from real-world experience. In this 1:1 virtual training, you’ll learn the basics and also see how they’re used in real-world situations. It’s a straightforward way to start with the fundamentals and build up to more advanced topics.
Here are the topics we will go through during the training.
Firewall administration
- Accessing the Palo Alto web interface
- Accessing the Palo Alto CLI
- Initial configuration of a firewall
- Creating admin accounts
- Committing changes
- Configuration management
Networking
- Interface types
- Layer 2 interfaces
- Layer 3 interfaces
- VLAN interfaces
- Virtual wire interfaces
- Tunnel interfaces
- Zones
- Understanding Security zones
- Routing
- Virtual routers
- Static Routes
Objects
- Address objects
- Address object groups
- Service objects
- Service object groups
App-ID
- Overview of Palo Alto Networks app-ID
Policy
- Security policy
- NAT policy
- Policy-based forwarding
Threat Prevention
- AV profiles
- Anti-spyware profiles
- Vulnerability Protection profiles
- URL filtering
- Wildfire
- File Blocking
VPN
- Site-to-Site VPN
- GlobalProtect VPN
Life of a Packet
- Different stages of packet flow through the Palo Alto firewall
Troubleshooting
- Traffic logs
- Threat logs
- Using the session browser
- Taking packet captures
Labs
- Investigate inbound NAT issues to the on-prem server
- Allow HTTP traffic between endpoints in 2 zones. But block SSH
- Investigate the loss of connectivity to the Internet