Palo Alto Palo Alto Automated Scheduled Configuration Backup I'm writing this in February 2025, and as far as I know, Palo Alto firewalls (not Panorama) don’ Suresh Vina Feb 27, 2025 6 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Clientless VPN Configuration As the title suggests, Palo Alto's clientless VPN allows users to access internal resources (HTTPS-based) without installing the Suresh Vina Feb 23, 2025 8 min read
Palo Alto Combining URL Categories on Palo Alto We know that in Palo Alto, or in any NGFW, we can allow or block various URL categories. Speaking specifically Suresh Vina Feb 10, 2025 2 min read
Palo Alto Trying to Automate Palo Alto Firewall Objects/Rules Cleanup In this blog post, we will walk you through how to clean up Palo Alto Firewall Objects and Rules using Suresh Vina Feb 5, 2025 9 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto SSL Decryption and App-ID If you work with Palo Alto firewalls, you might have heard of App-ID. They work well and let us create Suresh Vina Feb 3, 2025 5 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto How to Configure SSL Decryption? Most websites we access today use HTTPS, and to fully leverage a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) like Palo Alto, inspecting encrypted Suresh Vina Jan 25, 2025 9 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto - Remove Unused Address Objects Using pan-os-php If you’ve worked with Palo Alto firewalls, you might have noticed they don’t make it easy to get Suresh Vina Jan 15, 2025 8 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto URL Filtering and SSL Decryption In my previous blog posts (linked below), we looked at how to allow or block specific websites using URL filtering. Suresh Vina Jan 11, 2025 4 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto How to Block Specific URLs? When working with Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), you may come across situations where you need to block specific websites. In this Suresh Vina Jan 11, 2025 4 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Allow Access To Certain URLs Matching A Blocked URL Category If you use URL filtering on your Palo Alto firewalls, you may come across situations where a specific URL category Suresh Vina Jan 10, 2025 4 min read
Palo Alto Why You Should Change Palo Alto Master Key? Palo Alto firewalls come with a default master key used to encrypt passwords, secrets, and certificates. If your firewall is Suresh Vina Dec 6, 2024 4 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Auto-Tagging to Automate Security Actions Auto-tagging allows the firewall to tag a policy object when it receives a log that matches specific criteria, creating an Suresh Vina Nov 26, 2024 4 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Site-to-Site VPN Configuration Example What if I tell you that configuring site-to-site VPN on Palo Alto firewalls is easier than you may think? Just Suresh Vina Nov 13, 2024 7 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto High Traffic Latency Troubleshooting We all know that firewalls are limited by hardware resources. Larger devices support higher throughput, while smaller ones may not Suresh Vina Nov 5, 2024 4 min read
Palo Alto Global Protect VPN SAML SSO with Entra-ID In this blog post, we will look at how to use Entra-ID SAML SSO with GlobalProtect VPN. This guide assumes Suresh Vina Oct 19, 2024 5 min read
Palo Alto Global Protect Internal Host Detection & Internal Gateways - Lessons Learnt I already had Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN configured with an external gateway and portal, allowing me to connect back to Suresh Vina Oct 18, 2024 6 min read
Palo Alto How to Protect GlobalProtect Portal from Brute Force Attacks? As soon as you configure GlobalProtect and go to the monitor tab, you will see hundreds or even thousands of Suresh Vina Oct 12, 2024 5 min read
Palo Alto Auto Scaling Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in AWS In this blog post, we're going to explore how to Auto-Scale Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in AWS. It& Suresh Vina Oct 6, 2024 14 min read