Essentials 1: Firewall Installation, Configuration and Management V6.0

Live Online & Classroom Enterprise Training

Location: Bangalore, India | Dubai, UAE

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Course Details

Course Prerequisites

Students must have a basic familiarity with networking concepts including routing, switching, and IP addressing. Students should also be familiar with basic port-based security concepts. Experience with other security technologies (IPS, proxy, and content filtering) is a plu

Course Goals

Students attending this introductory-level class will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to install, configure, and manage their firewall, as well as configuration steps for the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, and reporting features of the Palo Alto Networks Operating System.

Course Agenda

Day 1
Module 0: Course Overview
Module 1: Platforms and Architecture

  • Single Pass Architecture
  • Control Plane and Data Plane
  • Flow Logic

Module 2: Administration and Management

  • GUI, CLI, and API
  • Config Management
  • PAN-OS & Software Update

Module 3: Interface Configuration

  • Layer 2, Layer 3, Virtual Wire, Tap
  • Sub-interfaces
  • Security Zones

Day 2
Module 4: Layer 3 Configuration

  • Interface Management
  • Service Routes
  • DHCP
  • Virtual Routers
  • NAT (source and destination)
  • IPv6 Overview

Module 5: App-ID

  • App-ID Process
  • Security Policy Configuration
  • Policy Administration

Module 6: Content-ID

  • Antivirus 
  • Anti-spyware
  • Vulnerability
  • URL Filtering
  • File Blocking: WildFire
  • Zone Protection

Module 7: Decryption

  • SSL Inbound and Outbound

Day 3
Module 8: User-ID

  • User-ID Agent
  • Enumerating Users
  • Mapping Users to IP
  • Users in Security Policy

Module 9: VPN

  • IPsec
  • GlobalProtect Overview

Module 10: High Availability

  • Configuring Active/Passive HA

Module 11: Panorama

  • Device Groups & Templates
  • Shared Policy
  • Config Management
  • Reporting and Log Collection