EDU-214 - Firewall 10.1: Improving Security Posture and Hardening PAN-OS Firewalls

Overview

Duration: 3.0 days

The Palo Alto Networks Firewall 10.1: Improving Security Posture and Hardening PAN-OS (EDU-214) course is three days of instructor-led training that will help you:

• Determine the efficacy of your current security policies 
• Develop workflows for managing your security posture 
• Identify rule usage across security policy sets 
• Modify your existing policy set to implement security best practices 
• Use the interactive web interface and firewall reports to monitor network traffic 
• Use tools such as the BPA tool to further understand your environment

Objectives

Successful completion of this three-day, instructor-led course will help the student manage and maintain a Palo Alto Networks firewall-protected environment. The student will learn how to improve non-greenfield environments and will be better equipped to ensure that configurations match security best practice. The student will also be able to develop an operational strategy for maintaining a high level of compliance.

Content

1: Introduction
2: Security Profile Revision
3: Daily Operations and Maintenance
4: Establish Initial Baseline Visibility
5: Analyze and Update Security Rules that Pass Traffic
6: Inbound Security Rules Best Practices and Analysis
7: Outbound Security Rules Best Practices and Analysis
8: Internal Security Rules Best Practices and Analysis
9: Administratively Hardening PAN-OS
10: Reducing Policy Set and Simplification

Audience

Security Engineers, Security Administrators, Security Operations Specialists, Security Analysts, and Support Staff

Prerequisites

Students must have completed the “Firewall Essentials: Configuration and Management” course. Students also should be familiar with basic security concepts. Experience with other security technologies (IPS, proxy, and content filtering) is an advantage.

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