A Palo Alto Networks firewall can make the correct security-policy decision and still fail to deliver traffic if routing is wrong. That distinction is fundamental […]
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Palo Alto Networks NGFW Engineer: NAT Troubleshooting
PAN-OS NAT troubleshooting becomes much easier when the engineer stops thinking of translation as an isolated rule and instead follows the packet through the firewall’s […]
Palo Alto Networks NGFW Engineer: Decryption Policy
Encrypted traffic creates a visibility problem for any security platform. Palo Alto Networks decryption policy addresses that problem by defining which TLS or SSH sessions […]
Palo Alto Networks NGFW Engineer: Panorama Templates vs Device Groups
Panorama separates centralized firewall management into two major configuration concerns: device/network settings and policy/objects. Templates and template stacks handle much of the device and network […]
Palo Alto Networks NGFW Engineer: PAN-OS High Availability and Failover
PAN-OS high availability is not simply “two firewalls with the same configuration.” A resilient pair depends on control communication, state synchronization, path monitoring, consistent software […]