Palo Alto Firewall PCNSE Training

Install a Palo Alto firewall in GNS3, enable KVM support, integrate VMware, and configure RAM and network settings for a smooth simulation.

Explore the Palo Alto firewall dashboard and customize widgets, layout, and logo. Monitor system information, top applications and risk factor, and use commit, save, and refresh options.

Explore Palo Alto firewall licenses and updates, including threat prevention licenses (antivirus, anti-spyware, vulnerability protection), URL filtering (PAN URL and BrightCloud), WildFire, GlobalProtect, and dynamic updates.

Build an initial working lab for a Palo Alto firewall, configuring two zones, interfaces, routing, and security policy; commit changes, assign IPs, test with logs and sessions to verify traffic.

Explore Palo Alto firewall interfaces and zones, including virtual wire, layer two, layer three, and tab mode, with loopback and tunnel interfaces, IP assignment, and zone-based policies.

Create and verify Palo Alto security policy rules across intra zone, inter zone, and universal scopes, focusing on source, destination, application, and user criteria with logging and security profiles.

Explore network address translation on Palo Alto firewalls, covering source NAT, destination NAT, dynamic IP and port, static NAT, port forwarding, and NAT policies.

Learn to create and reuse objects for addresses, services, and tags, including static and dynamic address groups, region and geolocation, fully qualified domain names, and scheduled policy control.

Learn to configure antivirus security profiles as part of content ID in a next-generation firewall, applying virus, spyware, and file checks to allowed traffic and using wildfire analysis.

Configure and attach an anti-spyware security profile to allowed policies, customize rules (default and strict), and test with packet capture while monitoring threats and signatures.

Configure vulnerability protection profiles in Palo Alto Firewall PCNSE Training by cloning default rules, creating custom signatures, and tuning actions from allow to alert or drop while capturing logs.

Configure a Palo Alto url filtering profile using pan db or brightcloud licenses, manage categories and override rules, and apply profiles to policies while noting ssl decryption limits and logs.

block unwanted file transfers with a file blocking security profile, attach it to an allowed policy, and test with pdf and x files using predefined rules or custom rules.

Explore wildfire analysis in Palo Alto firewalls, comparing cloud and appliance deployments, and learn how zero-day files are quarantined and classified as benign, greyware, or malware.

Configure data filtering profiles to block sensitive data like credit card numbers and social security numbers using predefined patterns, regular expressions, or file properties, providing alerts and blocks based on thresholds.

Create a security profile group to attach antivirus, anti-spyware, vulnerability, URL filtering, data filtering, and wildfire analysis at once, then apply the group to the policy.

Create and attach an interface management profile to loopback, tunnel, and physical interfaces. Configure allowed management protocols such as http, https, ping, telnet, and ssh, with IP-based access restrictions.

Learn to configure DDoS protection and zone protection on Palo Alto firewalls, including dust protection, buffer protection, and aggregate versus classified DDoS profiles, with practical flood testing.

This lecture explains Palo Alto's App-ID as part of a next generation firewall, identifying applications by signatures, protocol decoding, decryption, and behavior to enforce policies without relying on port numbers.

Deploy Palo Alto firewall in tape mode to mirror and monitor network traffic, providing visibility into applications, users, and top activities without enforcing policies.

Deploy Palo Alto firewalls as a virtual wire to bridge two interfaces in a transparent layer-2 path between inside and outside networks, enabling policy-driven traffic inspection.

Explore user ID and captive portal for traffic visibility, guest access, and user-based policies, with local or AD authentication and comprehensive logging.

Learn how to integrate Active Directory with a Palo Alto firewall using User-ID LDAP, configure Kerberos and DNS, and enforce policy by user or group.

Explore service route configuration in Palo Alto firewalls, learn how to redirect DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, syslog, and updates from the management interface to other interfaces when internet access is limited.

Explain administrator accounts on Palo Alto firewalls, compare dynamic vs role-based roles, create and assign predefined and custom administrator roles, and control access to monitor, device, and security tabs.

Explain administrator accounts, dynamic and built-in roles (super user, super user read-only, device administrator, and device administrator read-only), role-based access, and password profiles with expiration and warnings, and complexity rules.

Configure radius authentication on Palo Alto firewalls by using a centralized radius server, creating a radius profile, and applying it to administrator access for authentication, authorization, and accounting.

Learn to configure and verify a Palo Alto firewall as a dhcp server, dhcp client, and dhcp relay across inside, outside, and DMZ zones, with lab topology and packet captures.

Explore redundancy and high availability concepts for Palo Alto firewalls, including failover and backup links. Understand active-passive and active-active deployments, control and data links, heartbeat, and synchronize session data.

Explore backup and restore for Palo Alto firewall, including candidate and running configurations, commit and save workflows, and using snapshots, named configurations, and device state export/import for safe recovery.

Learn to navigate Palo Alto firewall logs in the monitor tab, including traffic, session details, and url, thread, and wildfire logs. Filter, save, and export for troubleshooting.

Configure netflow on Cisco devices, capture source and destination details, ports, layer 3 info, and top talkers, then push data to a netflow collector or soc for analysis.

Learn how to perform packet capture on a Palo Alto firewall for troubleshooting. Use manage filter and four stages—drop, firewall, receive, and transmit—to capture targeted traffic via GUI or CLI.

Explore the Palo Alto firewall's application command center tab, a hub for monitoring applications, user activity, logs, and traffic; export to PDF and track network, thread, block, and tunnel activities.

Learn site-to-site and remote access vpn concepts on Palo Alto firewalls, including ipsec with encryption, integrity, authentication, anti-replay, ike phases, and dh groups.