EDU-210 Firewall Essentials: Configuration and Management

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

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

Course Description

The Firewall Essentials: Configuration and Management (EDU-210) course is a five-day, instructor-led training that gives you hands-on experience configuring, managing, and monitoring Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls in a lab environment. You will learn how to configure security and NAT policies, control application traffic with App-ID, enforce user-based policies with User-ID, block known threats with security profiles, filter web traffic with URL Filtering, and detect unknown threats using WildFire. This is the foundational course for the Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) certification path.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the Palo Alto Networks product portfolio and firewall architecture
• Perform initial firewall configuration and connect the firewall to production networks
• Create and manage security policy rules and NAT policy rules
• Control application usage using App-ID
• Enforce user-based policies using User-ID
• Block known threats using security profiles including antivirus, anti-spyware, and vulnerability protection
• Filter web traffic using URL Filtering profiles
• Detect and prevent unknown threats using WildFire
• Configure SSL/TLS decryption to inspect encrypted traffic for threats
• Use logs and reports to locate and analyze network activity
• Manage firewall administrator accounts and role-based access

Course Outline

Course Modules

• Palo Alto Networks Portfolio and Architecture
• Configuring Initial Firewall Settings
• Managing Firewall Configurations
• Managing Firewall Administrator Accounts
• Connecting the Firewall to Production Networks with Security Zones
• Creating and Managing Security Policy Rules
• Creating and Managing NAT Policy Rules
• Controlling Application Usage with App-ID
• Blocking Known Threats Using Security Profiles
• Blocking Inappropriate Web Traffic with URL Filtering
• Blocking Unknown Threats with WildFire
• Controlling Access to Network Resources with User-ID
• Using Decryption to Block Threats in Encrypted Traffic
• Locating Valuable Information Using Logs and Reports

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