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Deploy, Administer, and Secure Palo Alto Firewalls

by Craig Stansbury

Palo Alto Networks created one of the first next-generation firewalls. This course will teach you how to deploy it to securely shape your traffic and protect your network.

What you'll learn

With today’s sophisticated attacks, networks without a next generation firewall are less secure than networks that properly deploy them. In this course, Deploy, Administer, and Secure Palo Alto Firewalls, you’ll learn to properly configure a Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall. First, you’ll explore the different products that Palo Alto Networks provides and how they all work together. Next, you’ll discover how to bootstrap the Palo Alto Firewall and configure basic administrative settings. Finally, you’ll learn how to configure objects and security polices to help shape traffic and secure your network. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of deploying a Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall needed to secure your network from modern day attacks.

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About the author

Craig has over 10 years of IT experience, including working on Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco Routes and Switches, Microsoft Servers, and VMWare ESXi. Craig started in IT in the United States Marine Corps and began teaching his Marines all the design and implementation concepts that they needed to know. He loves when his students have the "lightbulb moment" and are able to understand the concepts he is teaching them. Aside from teaching, Craig also owns a business that consults with enterprises to h... more

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