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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

You're reading from   Mastering Palo Alto Networks Deploy and manage industry-leading PAN-OS 10.x solutions to secure your users and infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956375
Length 514 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tom Piens Aka 'Reaper' Tom Piens Aka 'Reaper'
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: First Steps and Basic Configuration
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Core Technologies FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a New Device 4. Section 2: Advanced Configuration and Putting the Features to Work
5. Chapter 3: Building Strong Policies 6. Chapter 4: Taking Control of Sessions 7. Chapter 5: Services and Operational Modes 8. Chapter 6: Identifying Users and Controlling Access 9. Chapter 7: Managing Firewalls through Panorama 10. Section 3: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
11. Chapter 8: Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama 12. Chapter 9: Logging and Reporting 13. Chapter 10: VPN and Advanced Protection 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting Common Session Issues 15. Chapter 12: A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting 16. Chapter 13: Supporting Tools 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding and preparing security profiles

Before you can start building a solid security rule base, you need to create at least one set of security profiles to use in all of your security rules.

Important note

Security profiles are evaluated by the first security rule that a session is matched against. If a six-tuple is matched against a security rule with no or limited security profiles, no scanning can take place until there is an application shift and the security policy is re-evaluated. It is important for all security rules to have security profiles.

The Antivirus profile

The Antivirus profile has three sections that depend on different licenses and dynamic update settings. The actions under ACTION rely on the threat prevention license and antivirus updates, WILDFIRE ACTION relies on the WildFire license and the WildFire updates that are set to periodical updates (1 minute or longer intervals), and DYNAMIC CLASSIFICATION ACTION relies on WildFire set to real time...

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