Palo Alto Firewall Training

I will be covering Palo Alto firewall certification details in this session.

In this session, I will cover "Demonstrate knowledge of firewall management interfaces" including following topics:

✔ Management interfaces
✔ Methods of access
✔ Access restrictions
✔ Identity-management traffic flow
✔ Management services
✔ Service routes

In this session, I will explain about provision local administrators with these points:

✔ Authentication profile
✔ Authentication sequence

In this session you will learn about "Maintain firewall configurations" including following points:

✔ Running configuration
✔ Candidate configuration
✔ Discern when to use load, save, import, and export
✔ Differentiate between configuration states
✔ Back up Panorama configurations and firewalls from Panorama

In this session you will learn about "Push policy updates to Panorama-managed firewalls" with following points:

✔ Device groups and hierarchy
✔ Where to place policies
✔ Implications of Panorama management
✔ Impact of templates, template stacks, and hierarchy

In this session, you will learn about "Schedule and install dynamic updates" with below points:

✔ From Panorama
✔ From the firewall
✔ Scheduling and staggering updates on an HA pair

In this session, I will cover "Create and apply security zones to policies" with following points:

✔ Identify zone types
✔ External types
✔ Layer 2
✔ Layer 3
✔ TAP
✔ VWire
✔ Tunnel

In this session, I will cover "Identify and configure firewall interfaces" with these points:

✔ Different types of interfaces
✔ How interface types affect Security policies

This session will provide clear understanding of "Maintain and enhance the configuration of a virtual or logical router" with below points:

✔ Steps to create a static route
✔ How to use the routing
table
✔ What interface types can be added to a virtual or logical router
✔ How to configure route monitoring

This session will provide you in-depth concepts of "Create and maintain address and address group objects" with following points"

✔ How to tag objects
✔ Differentiate between address objects
✔ Static groups versus dynamic groups

In this session, I will cover "Configure and maintain application filters and application groups" with following topics:

✔ When to use filters versus groups
✔ The purpose of application characteristics as defined in the App-ID database

In this session you will learn about "Develop the appropriate application-based Security policy" with given points:

✔ Create an appropriate App-ID rule
✔ Rule shadowing
✔ Group rules by tag
✔ The potential impact of App-ID updates to existing Security policy rules
✔ Policy usage statistics

✔ Interzone
✔ Intrazone
✔ Universal

In this session, I will cover "Configure Security policy match conditions, actions, and logging
options" with given points:

✔ Application filters and groups
✔ Logging options
✔ App-ID
✔ User-ID
✔ Device-ID
✔ Application filter in policy
✔ Application group in policy
✔ EDLs

In this session, I will cover "Identify and implement proper NAT policies" with given course topics:

✔ Destination
✔ Source

In this session, you will learn about "Optimize Security policies using appropriate tools" with below points:

✔ Policy test match tool
✔ Policy Optimizer

In this session, you will learn "Compare and contrast different types of Security profiles" with given points:

✔ Antivirus
✔ Anti-Spyware
✔ Vulnerability Protection
✔ URL Filtering
✔ WildFire Analysis

In this session, you will learn "Create, modify, add, and apply the appropriate Security profiles and
groups" with below points:

✔ Antivirus
✔ Anti-Spyware
✔ Vulnerability Protection
✔ URL Filtering
✔ WildFire Analysis
✔ Configure threat prevention policy

In this session, you will learn "Use information available in logs" with following points:

✔ Traffic
✔ Threat
✔ Data
✔ System logs

In this session you will learn about "Enable DNS Security to control traffic based on domains" with below points:

✔ Configure DNS Security
✔ Apply DNS Security in policy

In this session, you will learn about "Create and deploy URL-filtering-based controls" with below points:

✔ Apply a URL profile in a Security policy
✔ Create a URL Filtering profile
✔ Create a custom URL category
✔ Control traffic based on a URL category
✔ Why a URL was blocked
✔ How to allow a blocked URL
✔ How to request a URL recategorization

In this session, you will learn about "Differentiate between group mapping and IP-to-user mapping
within policies and logs" with below points:

✔ How to control access to specific locations
✔ How to apply to specific policies
✔ Identify users within the ACC and the monitor tab

This session will teach you about "Identify how Palo Alto Networks products work together to improve PAN-OS services" with below points:

Security components
✔ Firewall components
✔ Panorama components
✔ PAN-OS subscriptions and the features they enable
✔ Plug-in components
✔ Heatmap and BPA reports
✔ Artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)/Telemetry
✔ IPv6
✔ Internet of things (IoT)

This session will teach you about "Determine and assess appropriate interface or zone types for various environments" with following points:

✔ Layer 2 interfaces
✔ Layer 3 interfaces
✔ Virtual wire (vwire) interfaces
✔ Tap interfaces
✔ Subinterfaces
✔ Tunnel interfaces
✔ Aggregate interfaces
✔ Loopback interfaces
✔ Decrypt mirror interfaces
✔ VLAN interfaces

This session will provide you clear understanding of "Identify decryption deployment strategies" with following points:

✔ Risks and implications of enabling decryption
✔ Use cases
✔ Decryption types
✔ Decryption profiles and certificates
✔ Create decryption policy in the firewall
✔ Configure SSH Proxy

In this session you will learn about detained knowledge of "Enforce User-ID" with following points:

✔ Methods of building user-to-IP mappings
✔ Determine if User-ID agent or agentless should be used
✔ Compare and contrast User-ID agents
✔ Methods of User-ID redistribution
✔ Methods of group mapping
✔ Server profile & authentication profile

In this session, you will learn about "Determine how and when to use the Authentication policy" with given points:

✔ Purpose of, and use case for, the Authentication policy
✔ Dependencies
✔ Captive portal versus GlobalProtect (GP) client

This session will help you to define multiple virtual systems (multi-vsys) environment with following topics:

✔ User-ID hub
✔ Inter-vsys routing
✔ Service routes
✔ Administration

This session will provide good understanding of "Configuration of management profiles" with these points:

✔ Interface management profile
✔ SSL/TLS service profile

This lab based session will provide clear understanding of "deployment and configuration of security profiles" with these points:

✔ Custom configuration of different Security profiles and Security profile
groups
✔ Relationship between URL filtering and credential theft prevention
✔ Use of username and domain name in HTTP header insertion
✔ DNS Security
✔ How to tune or add exceptions to a Security profile
✔ Compare and contrast threat prevention and advanced threat prevention
✔ Compare and contrast URL Filtering and Advanced URL Filtering

This session will provide good understanding of "how to configure zone protection, packet buffer protection, and DoS protection" with these points:

✔ Customized values versus default settings
✔ Classified versus aggregate profile types
✔ Layer 3 and Layer 4 header inspection

Learn how to design the deploy configuration of a Palo Alto Networks firewall in this session with these points:

✔ Advanced high availability (HA) deployments
✔ HA pair
✔ Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
✔ Bootstrapping

This session will teach you how to configure authorization, authentication, and device access with these points:

✔ Role-based access control for authorization
✔ Different methods used to authenticate
✔ The authentication sequence
✔ The device access method

You will learn how to configure and manage certificates with below points in this session:

✔ Usage
✔ Profiles
✔ Chains

This session will cover how to configure routing, NAT and site-to-site tunnels with following points:

✔ Dynamic routing
✔ Redistribution profiles
✔ Static routes
✔ Path monitoring
✔ Policy-based forwarding
✔ Virtual router versus logical router
✔ NAT policy rules
✔ Security rules
✔ Source NAT
✔ No NAT
✔ Use session browser to find NAT rule name
✔ U-Turn NAT
✔ Check HIT counts
✔ IPSec components
✔ Static peers and dynamic peers for IPSec
✔ IPSec tunnel monitor profiles
✔ IPSec tunnel testing
✔ Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
✔ One-to-one and one-to-many tunnels
✔ Determine when to use proxy IDs

In this session you will learn about "service routes and application-based QoS configuration with these points:

✔ Default
✔ Custom
✔ Destination
✔ Custom routes for different vsys versus destination routes
✔ How to verify service routes
✔ Enablement requirements
✔ QoS policy rule
✔ Add DSCP/TOS component
✔ QoS profile
✔ Determine how to control bandwidth use on a per-application basis
✔ Use QoS to monitor bandwidth utilization

In this session you will learn about how to configure App-ID, GlobalProtect, decryption, User-ID with following points:

✔ Create security rules with App-ID
✔ Convert port and protocol rules to App-ID rules
✔ Identify the impact of application override to the overall functionality of the firewall
✔ Create custom apps and threats
✔ Review App-ID dependencies
✔ GlobalProtect licensing
✔ Configure gateway and portal
✔ GlobalProtect agent
✔ Differentiate between login methods
✔ Configure Clientless VPN
✔ Host information profile (HIP)
✔ Configure multip
✔ Split tunneling
✔ Inbound decryption
✔ SSL forward proxy
✔ SSL decryption exclusions
✔ SSH proxy
✔ User-ID agent and agentless
✔ User-ID group mapping
✔ Shared User-ID mapping across virtual systems
✔ Data redistribution
✔ User-ID methods
✔ Benefits of using dynamic user groups in policy rules
✔ Requirements to support dynamic user groups
✔ How GlobalProtect internal and external gateways can be used

In this session you will learn about how to configure WildFire and Web Proxy with these points:

✔ Submission profile
✔ Action profile
✔ Submissions and verdicts
✔ Signature actions
✔ File types and file sizes
✔ Update schedule
✔ Forwarding of decrypted traffic
✔ Transparent proxy
✔ Explicit proxy

In this session you will learn about how to configure templates and template stacks and device groups with following points:

✔ Components configured in a template
✔ How the order of templates in a stack affects the configuration push to a firewall
✔ Overriding a template value in a stack
✔ Configure variables in templates
✔ Relationship between Panorama and devices as pertaining to dynamic updates versions, policy implementation, and/or HA peers
✔ Device group hierarchies
✔ Identify what device groups contain
✔ Differentiate between different use cases for pre-rules, local rules, the default rules, and post-rules
✔ Identify the impact of configuring a primary device
✔ Assign firewalls to device groups

In this session you will learn about how to configure firewalls within Panorama with these points:

✔ Licensing
✔ Commit recovery feature
✔ Automatic commit recovery
✔ Commit types and schedules
✔ Config backups
✔ Commit type options
✔ Manage dynamic updates for Panorama and Panorama-managed devices
✔ Software and dynamic updates
✔ Import firewall configuration into Panorama
✔ Configure log collectors
✔ Check firewall health and status from Panorama
✔ Configure role-based access on Panorama

In this session you will learn about how to manage and configure Log Forwarding with these points:

✔ Identify log types and criticalities
✔ Manage external services
✔ Create and manage tags
✔ Identify system and traffic issues using the web interface and CLI tools
✔ Configure Log Forwarding profile and device log settings
✔ Log monitoring
✔ Customize logging and reporting settings

This session will provide clear understanding of plan and execution of the process to upgrade a Palo Alto Networks system with following points:

✔ Single firewall
✔ HA pairs
✔ Panorama push
✔ Dynamic updates

In this session you will learn to manage HA functions with these points:

✔ Link monitoring
✔ Path monitoring
✔ HA links
✔ Failover
✔ Active/active and active/passive
✔ HA interfaces
✔ Clustering
✔ Election setting

In this session you will learn about Troubleshooting including site-to-site tunnels, interfaces, decryption, routing, general, resource protections, GlobalProtect, policies, HA functions troubleshooting with these points:

✔ IPSec
✔ GRE
✔ One-to-one and one-to-many tunnels
✔ Route-based versus policy-based remote hosts
✔ Tunnel monitoring
✔ Transceivers
✔ Settings
✔ Aggregate interfaces, LACP
✔ Counters
✔ Tagging
✔ Inbound decryption
✔ SSL forward proxy
✔ SSH proxy
✔ Identify what cannot be decrypted and configure exclusions and bypasses
✔ Certificates
✔ Dynamic routing
✔ Redistribution profiles
✔ Static routes
✔ Route monitoring
✔ Policy-based forwarding
✔ Multicast routing
✔ Service routes
✔ Logs
✔ Packet capture (pcap)
✔ Reports
✔ Zone protection profiles
✔ DoS protections
✔ Packet buffer protections
✔ Portal and Gateway
✔ Access to resources
✔ GlobalProtect client
✔ NAT
✔ Security
✔ Decryption
✔ Authentication
✔ Monitor
✔ Failover triggers