Training Course

PAN-EDU-201- Firewall Installation, Configuration, and Management

Duration:

2 Days

Price:

$1850.00 Per Student

Thank you gift:

Prerequisities

Students must have a basic familiarity with networking concepts including routing, switching and IP addressing. Students should also be familiar with the traditional role of a firewall in network security. Experience with other security technologies (IPS, Proxy and content filtering) can be a plus.

Course Overview

During this introductory-level class, the instructor will lead students through the process of installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks next generation firewalls. Successful completion of this two-day, instructor led course will enable the attendee to install, configure, manage, and perform basic troubleshooting on the entire line of Palo Alto Networks next generation firewalls.

Course Outline

Students will be introduced to deployment scenarios and the configuration steps for the networking, security, threat prevention, reporting and logging features of PAN-OS, the security-specific operating system that controls every Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall. Additional PAN-OS subjects include SSL decryption, Captive Portal and IPSec VPNs. Using a combination of instructor lecture, interactive demonstrations and hands-on labs, this class will give students an in-depth understanding of how App-ID, User-ID and Content-ID can enable policy based visibility and control over applications, users and content.

Topics include:

• Core Concepts

• Deployment Options

• Initial Setup

• Device Management

• Blocking & Tackling (Basic Security policy creation, interface configuration, NAT policy)

• Advanced Blocking & Tackling (Protection Profiles, Advanced Policy options, Application override)

• IP Sec VPN

• SSL Decryption

• User Identification Agent

• High Availability

• Reporting

About the Instructor:

Abe Smith has over 20 years experience in IT, the last 16 years as an IT Security Architect and Consultant for Global 1000 companies.  He has personally installed over 500 firewalls worldwide, instructed at SANS, and built security organizations from the ground up for several Fortune 500 companies.  He was the first instructor to teach Check Point in the US, and did so for 6 years, teaching about one week a month, and consulting and installing the other three weeks.  This approach brought fresh real world field experience to his classes.  He continues this approach today.