Mastering Palo Alto Networks – Second Edition: Build, configure, and deploy network solutions for your infrastructure using features of PAN-OS
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Deploy and manage industry-leading PAN-OS 10.x solutions to secure your users and infrastructure
Key FeaturesUnderstand how to optimally use PAN-OS featuresBuild firewall solutions to safeguard local, cloud, and mobile networksProtect your infrastructure and users by implementing robust threat prevention solutionsBook Description
Palo Alto Networks’ integrated platform makes it easy to manage network and cloud security along with endpoint protection and a wide range of security services.
This book is an end-to-end guide to configure firewalls and deploy them in your network infrastructure. You will see how to quickly set up, configure and understand the technology, and troubleshoot any issues that may occur. This book will serve as your go-to reference for everything from setting up to troubleshooting complex issues. You will learn your way around the web interface and command-line structure, understand how the technology works so you can confidently predict the expected behavior, and successfully troubleshoot any anomalies you may encounter. Finally, you will see how to deploy firewalls in a cloud environment, and special or unique considerations when setting them to protect resources.
By the end of this book, for your configuration setup you will instinctively know how to approach challenges, find the resources you need, and solve most issues efficiently.
What you will learnExplore your way around the web interface and command lineDiscover the core technologies and see how to maximize your potential in your networkIdentify best practices and important considerations when configuring a security policyConnect to a freshly booted appliance or VM via a web interface or command-line interfaceGet your firewall up and running with a rudimentary but rigid configurationGain insight into encrypted sessions by setting up SSL decryptionTroubleshoot common issues, and deep-dive into flow analyticsConfigure the GlobalProtect VPN for remote workers as well as site-to-site VPNWho this book is for
The book is for network and security professionals, and administrators who want to bring in the power of Palo Alto Networks and firewalls to secure their networks. Engineers should have a good grasp of networking and routing protocols, basic knowledge of stateful or next-generation firewalls is helpful but not required.
Table of ContentsUnderstanding the Core TechnologiesSetting Up a New DeviceBuilding Strong PoliciesTaking Control of SessionsServices and Operational ModesIdentifying Users and Controlling AccessManaging Firewalls through PanoramaUpgrading Firewalls and PanoramaLogging and ReportingVirtual Private NetworksAdvanced ProtectionTroubleshooting Common Session IssuesA Deep Dive into TroubleshootingCloud based firewall deploymentSupporting Tools
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Key Features: Discover best practices for configuring and maintaining Palo Alto Networks firewalls and Panorama management systems Troubleshoot both common and advanced issues Maximize the potential of core technologies in your network and learn to confidently predict their expected behavior
What is new in this second edition?
I’ve gone through the entire book to make sure that anything I didn’t like in the previous edition was changed and improved, and have updated some parts to reflect new or changed features in the latest PAN-OS. I’ve also added some more tips and pointers for the features that some of my readers were struggling with. An entire chapter has been included, covering how to set up a firewall in Azure with some pitfalls and ‘oddities’ you may encounter if you’re new to Azure.
What’s new?
A brand-new chapter about cloud-based firewall deployment with Azure Updated content to reflect new features and changes in PAN-OS More pointers for avoiding common pitfalls and getting the most out of PAN firewalls Tips and tricks to help readers looking to pass the PCNSE exam
What trajectory does this book take to help its readers master Palo alto networks?
The book is structured to take the reader from novice to proficient in the first two-thirds or so of the book, and up to mastery after the last chapters (and maybe after a second readthrough as well). Each chapter has step-by-step explanations of the essential concepts with practical examples to put the learning into practice.
After finishing the book, readers should instinctively know how to approach challenges concerning their configuration and know how to solve most issues efficiently or find the resources they need to do so; by the end, my goal is to have users not only be able to implement a fully configured firewall, but also understand how and why certain things work.
What are key takeaways of this book?
I’d hope just about everything! But there are a few chapters that are particularly good to keep in your back pocket for when you need a refresher, or for when you’re sitting in a data center at 3 a.m. and are running low on caffeine; for example, the two troubleshooting chapters (Chapter 12, Troubleshooting Common Session Issues, and Chapter 13, A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting) and Chapter 8, Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama (which is one that I regularly use as a quick little roadmap to make all my upgrades go smoothly). I also put in a lot of tips and tricks that I hope will help readers get things done more easily because they’ve been warned beforehand. Also, there are several cheat sheets in the book that are great for quick reminders.
Publisher : Packt Publishing; 2nd ed. edition (June 8, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 636 pages
ISBN-10 : 1803241411
ISBN-13 : 978-1803241418
Item Weight : 2.4 pounds
Dimensions : 9.25 x 7.52 x 1.28 inches
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Mark Anthony Condeza –
One stop book
The book has been a collection of knowledge to me; instead of searching for all this knowledge all over the internet this book has saved me lots of time
Dave Dukinfield –
Phenomenal guide to Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS based NGFWs
Tom Piensâ Mastering Palo Alto Networks is a phenomenal guide to Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS based NGFWs whether you are just starting out and need to learn the fundamentals of bringing up your first NGFW or you are a seasoned security professional who wants to improve your care and feeding of your security deployment and are looking to optimize your policies or your troubleshooting of the deployment.His coverage of key GUI based (and CLI based) configuration will become your go-to reference on most things PAN-OS based. That includes, in Chapter 7, the efficiencies of using Panorama through leveraging templates and device groups and their hierarchy.Piensâ coverage of tools and troubleshooting show the debugging power inherent in the existing tools (logs, reports, session flow analysis). Readers should also look into Palo Alto Networks Iron Skillet templates and other tools available on Github.Chapter 14 is a challenge to cover all the myriad of deployment options in a cloud environment (public, private, hybrid), but Tom does a thorough job of addressing cloud based NGFW. I can see an entire book just covering these types of virtual deployments, including container based NGFWs whether they be DaemonSet based or CN as a Kubernetes service.My hope is that future updates or new references will cover PAN-OS new features like AIOps, Advanced Routing Engine and 5G Mobility.
Felix martinez –
One stop shop for PANW fw
My biggest takeaway from this book is the fact that along with showing how to configure and traverse the Palo Alto firewall, I was shown what the best practices are and guidance in troubleshooting techniques. This book is an one stop shop on everything Palo Alto firewall related and by the end you will have mastered it. I work with PANW NGFW’s on a daily basis and this is going to be a great resource for me to have.
DasMalkavian –
Nice to have if you like paper, other wise look online for the information.
Good book, but same time I feel like you can get all this online.
Tika –
Good Reference Guide
This is a good concise reference guide to cover a lot of NGFW concepts and use them in a simple language and easy to read, although some figures are not clear.
SRP –
Every day is a learning day when reading this book
When reading Mastering Palo Alto Networks – Second Edition, every day is a learning day for me!While I have been working with Palo Alto Networks technologies for close to 10 years, the sheer depth offeatures and configuration combinations can become hard to comprehend. Tom Piens (aka Reaper) has always been a person that we, the consulting community, rely on when designing, troubleshooting or validating complex designs.For me, the most significant appeal of the book is that Reaper has captured and consolidated all the critical design aspects, best practices, potential pitfalls and troubleshooting guidances in a single resource.The book’s layout is also excellent and is in line with how consultants like myself have designed and deployed Palo Alto Networks solutions for quite a long time. Technical publications often emphasise the “design and deploy” aspect but, unfortunately, not so much on the “run and operate” element. I am pleased that Reaper has taken the time and effort to capture operational aspects and provided excellent guidance around deeper troubleshooting.In the preface, it is mentioned that “This book is for novice to expert level firewall and network engineers.” – I agree with this. As mentioned, I have been working with Palo Alto Networks firewalls for close to 10 years, and for me, this book (both editions) has been an excellent resource for “quick” validations. On the other end, I have a few colleagues who were new to Palo Alto Networks firewall asking for advice on the best way to learn the technology. Apart from the admin guides, I referred them to this book, and it was encouraging to see a few of them clear their PCNSE exams using the book as a study guide and building their test labs.A message to Reaper – some of the screenshots need to be reworked ;-)Seetal R Patel – Palo Alto Networks – Consulting Engineer
Amazon Customer –
Great companion handbook for PAN-OS next-generation firewalls.
This book does a great job of covering the wide breadth of possibilities offered by the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS next-generation firewalls. WhIlst the official documentation offers good literature when you know where to start and which features you wish to use, this book explains WHY you may want to use specific features, and then goes on to offer good approaches to each of the features along the way. It is also very useful for those who don’t know where to start, and the chapters are ordered such that the early part of the book serves as an excellent introduction for those who are totally new and for whom the documentation would not serve well.Nothing is perfect of course, and in the next edition I would like to see more detail on PAN-OS APIs and programmability, specifically the XML and REST APIs and a compare/contrast between the two. I also think variables within Templates and Template Stacks would be worthy of more coverage.The author has done a very comprehensive job in almost every area though, there are very few places where features are not thoroughly explained. I think this book would be a very good companion for the majority of PAN-OS administrators
Anon –
Good Book Palo Alto Networks
punter –
PA devices are complicated compared to e.g. Zyxel security appliances.This book has good coverage of several PA configuration areas.Setting up network interfaces is covered briefly in this book. I struggled to configure network on a PA device because of my insufficient knowledge of networks.All in all, this is a useful book.
Ricardo D –
I have been using Palo Alto firewalls professionally for a few years and have two in my home lab including my main home firewall (a PA-440 LAB edition). This book is simply a must-have for any firewall security engineer that works with these firewalls and I have certainly cemented my understanding of many topics (i.e. destination NAT, using VSYS, SSL decryption, etc.) Highly recommended!
Lucian Maxinoiu –
I think this book is great for any engineer having to deal with Palo Alto devices/software.From a support engineer perspective a lot of hints provided by Tom are what I would recommend as well regarding device upgrades, how to deploy, plan, have rollback plans as well.It is also extremely helpful for anyone looking to obtain PCNSE certification, it really does contain a lot of valuable information, balancing theory and configuration examples on topics discussed in the book.
Atanu –
After receiving the book multiple pages was loose from the book. Content is good but book binding quality is very bad. Need Improvement !