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Are you eager to enhance your network security skills? Look no further! Our Palo Alto Firewall Training course is designed to empower you with the knowledge and expertise needed to effectively implement and manage Palo Alto firewalls.
In this Palo Alto Training, you’ll delve into the world of Palo Alto firewalls, learning how to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot these powerful security solutions. Whether you’re a seasoned IT professional or just starting your cybersecurity journey, our Palo Alto Firewall course will equip you with the skills to secure networks and protect against modern cyber threats. Join us today and take the first step towards becoming a network security expert!
Welcome to our comprehensive Palo Alto Firewall Training program, designed to prepare you for the PCNSA certification (Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator) and PCNSE certification (Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer). Our mission is to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in the dynamic field of network security with a focus on Palo Alto Networks solutions.
Firewalls are the safety shields guarding our computer networks, deciding who gains access and who gets denied. In today’s cyber landscape, they’re the bedrock of network security, protecting businesses of all sizes. At the forefront of this security revolution is Palo Alto Networks, the industry leader in “next generation firewalls.
PCNSA (Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator): Focuses on foundational knowledge and skills for administering Palo Alto firewalls and is suitable for entry-level network security professionals.
PCNSE (Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer): An advanced certification that delves deeper into Palo Alto Networks technologies, requiring expertise in designing, deploying, and troubleshooting complex network security solutions.
For those looking to broaden their network security expertise beyond Palo Alto, our program offers Cisco courses like CCNA Training, CCNP, or CCIE training for other industry-standard certifications. If you’ve already completed Cisco courses like CCNA Training, CCNP, or CCIE, consider enhancing your skills with Palo Alto training to further expand your expertise and stay competitive in today’s cybersecurity landscape.
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Our Palo Alto Firewall Course is ideal for graduates with basic IT, networking, and network security knowledge, looking to enhance their skills.
Candidates should have a grasp of:
Certification Name | Network Security Administrator (PCNSA PAN‐OS 10) |
Exam Duration | 80 Minutes |
Exam Format | Multiple Choice Questions |
Total Questions | 50 to 60 |
Passing Score | Variable (70-80 / 100 Approx.) |
Exam Cost | $155 USD |
Prerequisites: | None |
Certification Name | Network Security Engineer (PCNSE PAN-OS 10) |
Exam Duration | 80 Minutes |
Exam Format | Multiple Choice Questions |
Total Questions | 75 |
Passing Score | Variable (70-80 / 100 Approx.) |
Exam Cost | $175 USD |
Prerequisites: | None |
The Palo Alto Firewall PCNSA Course delivers a profound knowledge base, providing a deep understanding of:
Explore essential facets of network security and management within the Palo Alto Networks Strata Portfolio, including APP-ID configuration for application control, Content-ID’s role in content management, User-ID for user-related security, Captive Portal applications, Device-ID for device recognition, fundamental security processes, NGFW form factors, management considerations, Authentication Policy, Prisma Access applications, Panorama’s versatility, CN-Series and VM-Series usage, and GlobalProtect VPN for secure remote access.
Explore signature processing, security processing, and network processing engines, and their connection to traffic flow impact.
Understand management user interfaces, access methods, restrictions, and identity management traffic flow.
Efficiently manage administrator access and authentication by implementing role-based access control and authentication sequences.
Manage running and candidate configurations, and grasp when to use load, save, import, and export.
Understand device groups, policy placement, Panorama management implications, and backup procedures for configurations and NGFW via Panorama.
Understand the impact of dynamic updates to existing security
policies.
Learn about security zones, their types, and how to apply them to security policies.
Explore firewall interfaces, their types, and how they impact security policy setup.
Discover virtual router setup, including static route creation, routing table usage, interface integration, and route monitoring in network management.
Discover how to create address objects and effectively apply them in policies. Additionally, learn to create address groups for simplified policy management, understand object tagging for organization, and differentiate between various address objects.
Focus on service configuration, including the creation of services and their application in security policies. Explore the creation of service groups to streamline policy management.
Learn to use pre-defined Palo Alto Networks external dynamic lists (EDLs), implement exceptions to them, and apply them efficiently in security policies.
Differentiate between application filters and groups and determine when to use each. Include application filters and groups in your policies and grasp the purpose of application characteristics defined in the App-ID database.
Learn to identify and implement appropriate application-based security policies. Understand suitable APP-ID rules, rule shadowing, rule grouping by tags, and the potential impact of App-ID updates on existing security policies.
Identify the purposes of specific security rule types, including interzone rules, intrazone rules, and universal rules, and determine when to use them effectively.
Explore security policy match conditions, actions, and logging options. Configure these aspects, use Application Filters and Groups, and understand logging options.
Implement proper NAT policies, including destination and source NAT, differentiate between NAT options, and create NATs in the correct order based on pre-existing ones.
Identify tools available for optimizing security policies, including the policy test match tool, policy optimizer, and Expedition.
Explore the application of appropriate security profiles. Differentiate between various security profile types, learn how to create and modify security profiles, add security profiles to policies, create profile groups, and include security profile groups in policies.
Distinguish between security policy actions and security profile actions. Understand the nuances of traffic logs, threat logs, data logs, and the differentiation among security profile actions.
Discover how the firewall can utilize cloud DNS Security to manage traffic based on domains. Identify where to configure DNS security and how to apply it in policy.
Identify how the firewall utilizes the PAN-DB database to control traffic based on websites. Learn how to apply a URL profile in a security policy and create a URL filtering profile.
Control access to specific URLs using custom URL filtering categories. Understand why a URL was blocked, how to allow a blocked URL, and how to request a URL recategorization.
Differentiate between group mapping and IP to user mapping within policies and logs. Identify how to control access to specific locations, apply them to specific policies, and access user information within the ACC and monitor tab.
The Palo Alto Firewall PCNSE Course delivers a profound knowledge base, providing a deep understanding of:
Discover and understand the various security components within PAN-OS and how they collaborate. This includes recognizing security components, NGFW components, Panorama components, PAN-OS subscriptions, and plug-in components.
Differentiate between deployment considerations for virtual form factors across various environments. Explore public cloud, hybrid cloud, private cloud, and container firewall deployment considerations.
Determine the suitable interface types for different environments, including Layer 2 interfaces, Layer 3 interfaces, vWire interfaces, Tap interfaces, sub-interfaces, tunnel interfaces, aggregate interfaces, and loopback interfaces.
Understand decryption deployment strategies, including risks, implications, hardware impact, SSH proxy configuration, use cases of decryption profiles, and the impact of SSL decryption.
Identify the methods of inserting the firewall within a larger security stack, including decryption brokers and the purpose of clear text pass-through.
Plan User-ID deployment by recognizing methods for building user-to-IP mappings, differentiating User-ID agents, User-ID redistribution methods, group mapping methods, and the use of username and domain name in HTTP header insertion.
Understand the purposes of captive portal, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and the Authentication policy. Identify use cases for MFA and dependencies for its implementation.
Summarize the components of Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN deployments, including requirements for PAN-OS SD-WAN and Prisma SD-WAN deployments, considerations for Prisma SD-WAN usage, and SD-WAN integrations.
Differentiate between the fundamental functions of the management plane and data plane. Identify functions residing on each plane and scope the impact of SSL decryption and log enabling for every security policy.
Learn how to configure management profiles, including SSH management profiles, SSL/TLS profiles, and interface management settings.
Identify and configure various security profiles and security profile groups. Discover how to create custom security profiles, configure exceptions, understand URL filtering’s relationship with credential theft prevention, and consider the impact of enabling logs for every security policy.
Configure security rules to implement App-ID without relying on port-based rules, migrate port and protocol rules, understand the impact of application override, and create custom apps and threats.
Implement zone protection profiles, denial-of-service protections, and packet buffer protections to enhance security.
Plan and deploy the firewall to meet business needs, including NGFW deployment planning, single firewall implementation, active-passive High Availability pairs, considerations for advanced HA deployments, zero-touch provisioning, and bootstrapping.
Set up Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for authorization, explore authentication methods, implement the authentication sequence, and understand device administration methods.
Identify, configure, and manage certificates effectively.
Configure dynamic routing, redistribution profiles, static routes, route monitoring, and policy-based forwarding while considering its impact on routing and firewall security.
Configure Prisma Access services, connections, mobile users, remote networks, and understand the implications of regions, locations, and terms.
Understand the components of a GlobalProtect portal, configure gateways, install agents, differentiate logon methods, configure clientless VPN, and grasp GlobalProtect licensing details.
Configure NAT policy rules, security rules, and sourcenet features for effective network address translation.
Set up inbound decryption, SSL forward proxy, and SSH proxy for secure traffic inspection.
Configure IPsec, GRE, one-to-one, and one-to-many tunnels, and determine when to use proxy IDs.
Configure PAN-OS and Prisma SD-WAN, and monitor SD-WAN connection status and failovers in Panorama.
Understand captive portal, leverage dynamic user groups in policy rules, identify requirements to support dynamic user groups, use internal and external gateways effectively, and utilize usernames and domain names in HTTP header insertion.
Configure default and custom routes to manage service routing efficiently.
Select applications, egress interfaces, and configure QoS policies and profiles for application-based Quality of Service.
Set up WildFire submission and consumption, configure supported file types, and manage file sizes for effective threat analysis.
Learn how to configure templates and template stacks effectively, including understanding their use, the impact of template order on firewall configuration, components configured within templates, configuring variables, and understanding Panorama’s relationship with devices concerning dynamic updates versions and policy implementation or High Availability (HA) peers.
Explore device group hierarchies and contents, differentiate use cases for pre-rules and post-rules, and understand the impact of configuring a master device.
Understand how the Panorama commit recovery feature operates and configure its settings. Implement commit schedules, manage configuration backups, and comprehend various commit type options.
Efficiently manage and configure log forwarding, including identifying log types and criticalities, managing external services, creating and managing tags, and utilizing web interface and CLI tools to identify system and traffic issues.
Develop and execute a process to update Palo Alto Networks systems, whether it’s a single firewall, HA pairs, or Panorama. Schedule and manage dynamic updates and software updates as part of this process.
Handle HA functions effectively, including configuring link monitoring, path monitoring, understanding when to use HA links, optimizing failover, configuring Active/Active and Active/Passive setups, and managing HA interfaces.
Identify the benefits and differences between Heatmap and Best Practice Assessment (BPA) reports and learn how to leverage these reports to optimize firewall configurations.
Expertly troubleshoot site-to-site tunnels, including IPsec and GRE tunnels, one-to-one, and one-to-many tunnel configurations, as well as resolving proxy ID issues.
Efficiently diagnose physical interface issues, including troubleshooting transceivers and various settings.
Resolve SSL decryption-related issues with ease. Learn how to view decrypted traffic through the GUI and CLI, differentiate between supported and unsupported cipher suites, identify certificate problems, and troubleshoot both inbound decryption, SSL forward proxy, and SSH proxy.
Effectively troubleshoot routing challenges, such as configuring dynamic routing, redistribution profiles, static routes, route monitoring, and understanding the impact of policy-based forwarding on routing and firewall security.
Gain proficiency in investigating traffic patterns on the NGFW or Panorama. Interpret log files, create and analyze reports and graphs, and use both web interface and CLI tools to identify system and traffic issues.
Address issues related to protection mechanisms, including troubleshooting zone protection profiles, denial-of-service protections, and packet buffer protections.
Master the art of troubleshooting GlobalProtect, covering connection problems to the Portal, Gateway, provided resources, and GP client.
Develop expertise in troubleshooting PAN-OS-based SD-WAN. Diagnose simple SD-WAN event statuses, interpret counters, troubleshoot VPN tunnels, app performance via Panorama monitoring, and link performance via Panorama monitoring.
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PCNSA stands for Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator, a certification for individuals who manage and maintain Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
PCNSE stands for Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer, a certification for professionals who design, configure, and troubleshoot Palo Alto Networks solutions.
PCNSA training covers firewall configuration, network security, policies, and monitoring using Palo Alto Networks technology.
Yes, PCNSE is the advanced certification, demonstrating expertise in designing and implementing complex Palo Alto Networks solutions.
To earn PCNSE, you must first pass the PCNSA certification exam.
Preparation time varies, but it typically takes a few months of focused study and hands-on practice.
Yes, Palo Alto Networks offers official training courses and study materials to help candidates prepare for both PCNSA and PCNSE exams.
Palo Alto Networks certification validates your expertise, enhances career prospects, and demonstrates your ability to secure modern networks effectively.
