Deploying, Administering, and Securing Palo Alto Firewalls

This course will teach you how to deploy a brand-new Palo Alto firewall, enabling you to configure administrative settings, set up routing, create objects, and apply them to security policies to shape your enterprise’s network traffic.

Now, more than ever before, there are more sophisticated threats geared towards enterprise networks and disrupting their day-to-day business, requiring a comprehensive solution to mitigate and prevent these attacks. In this course, Deploying, Administering, and Securing Palo Alto Firewalls, you will gain the ability to protect your network using Palo Alto’s Next Generation Firewall. First, you will learn how firewalls have evolved over the years to combat ever changing threats, and how Palo Alto is leading the way. Next, you will discover how to deploy the firewall out-of-the-box and configure administrative and back-end settings. Lastly, you will explore how to setup routing, create security zones, addresses, applications and service objects, and how to tie it all together into a security policy to shape your network’s traffic. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of a Network Security Engineer needed to administer Palo Alto’s Next Generation Firewall.

Topics:

• Course Overview
• Understanding Why to Use Palo Alto
• Initializing the Palo Alto Firewall
• Administering the Palo Alto
• Deploying Palo Alto Using Layer 3 Mode
• Processing Palo Alto Traffic
• Putting It All Together - Setting up Security Rules to Shape Traffic