
Firewall Automation-Intro-1
Learn how to connect Panorama and FortiGate to BloxDyne for firewall policy automation. This lecture covers device groups, API connection details, anchor rules, network-to-zone or interface mappings, object naming conventions, security profiles, and FortiGate VDOM settings. By the end, your lab will be ready for the first policy deployment.
Follow a lab demonstration of deploying approximately 200 firewall rule entries from an Excel request to Panorama and FortiGate using BloxDyne. Learn how to monitor deployment progress, review execution logs, and verify the resulting policies, including Panorama’s commit and push to the managed Palo Alto firewall. The lecture also covers dashboard statistics, audit reports, and rollback of the deployed changes.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Are you still pushing firewall policy changes manually, one rule at a time, across Palo Alto and FortiGate devices?
If you manage enterprise firewalls, you know the pain: hundreds of change tickets, repetitive object creation, inconsistent naming, and the constant risk of overwriting an existing rule by mistake. This course teaches you how to eliminate that manual workload using BloxDyne, a firewall automation platform built specifically for Palo Alto (Panorama, PAN-OS) and Fortinet (FortiGate, FortiManager) environments.
In this course, you'll learn how to:
Connect Palo Alto, Panorama, FortiGate, and FortiManager devices to BloxDyne via API
Map network subnets, zones,IP addresses and VDOMs/vsys correctly during device setup
Build Excel-based firewall policy templates — from a handful of test rules to 200+ line bulk deployments
Push policies across multiple devices in parallel, with automatic object deduplication and rule merging
Diagnose and fix common push failures: API key mismatches, unreachable devices, missing threat profiles, and object errors
Save and retrieve device configurations for reuse across deployments
Safely roll back firewall changes when something goes wrong
This course is built for network and security engineers who already manage Palo Alto and/or Fortinet firewalls in production and want to automate the repetitive parts of their workflow.