Palo Alto How to Bootstrap Palo Alto Firewalls in AWS? In this blog post, we will look at how to bootstrap Palo Alto firewalls in AWS. Bootstrapping is a method Suresh Vina Nov 16, 2023 7 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto PAN-OS SDK for Python - Working with Panorama In this blog post, we'll explore how to use the pan-os-python library with Panorama. Working with Panorama is a bit Suresh Vina Oct 27, 2023 6 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Create Bulk Address Objects using Pan-OS Python SDK In this blog post, we'll see how to configure bulk Address-Objects at once and then add them to an Address-Group Suresh Vina Oct 25, 2023 5 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Automation - What do I do? Where do I start? If you're like me, using Palo Alto firewalls every day, you'll appreciate the value of automation, especially when there are Suresh Vina Oct 2, 2023 11 min read
Palo Alto Automating Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls with AWS GWLB In this blog post, we'll go through the key steps you'll likely encounter when looking to fully automate the deployment Suresh Vina Sep 5, 2023 13 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto PAN-OS SDK for Python At first glance, the pan-os-python library seemed tricky to me. I was more comfortable using Palo Alto's REST-API for its Suresh Vina Jul 27, 2023 9 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto Discard/Revert Uncommitted Changes Sometimes, you may make changes that you don't want to keep and you want to go back to how it Suresh Vina Jul 10, 2023 2 min read
Firewall FortiGate Dual ISP SD-WAN Configuration Example Recently, I was helping a friend with his FortiGate deployment. One of the tasks we tackled was setting up load-balancing Suresh Vina Jun 11, 2023 4 min read
Firewall Fortinet Stack Configuration (FortiGate, FortiSwitch and FortiAP) Recently, I had the opportunity to help a friend set up and manage a network using Fortinet's FortiGate Firewall, FortiSwitches Suresh Vina Jun 10, 2023 6 min read
Cisco Cisco ASA Packet Tracer Encrypt Type:VPN Result:Drop Setting up a site-to-site VPN is easy on the ASA, but the problem starts when the tunnel doesn't come up. Suresh Vina Jun 8, 2023 4 min read
Cisco Cisco ASA VPN Troubleshooting and Debugging Setting up a site-to-site VPN is easy, but the real hard work starts when the tunnel doesn't come up. It Suresh Vina Jun 7, 2023 11 min read
Python Palo Alto Netmiko Example Overview Netmiko, a popular Python library used in Network Automation, provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for interacting with Networking Suresh Vina May 1, 2023 5 min read
Terraform Palo Alto Automation with Terraform Oh boy, as Network Engineers we have been learning so many new things lately, it's like we're in a never-ending Suresh Vina Apr 12, 2023 13 min read
Firewall What is Zero Trust Security? Ah, Zero Trust. The magical cybersecurity 'thing' that everyone talks about but seems as hard to decipher as finding a Suresh Vina Apr 4, 2023 4 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto User-ID for Beginners Overview One of the best features of the Palo Alto firewall is hands-down User-ID. In simple terms, User-ID maps an Suresh Vina Mar 19, 2023 3 min read
Juniper Juniper SRX NAT configuration Example In this blog post, we will go through the Juniper SRX NAT configuration examples. We will mainly be focusing on Suresh Vina Jan 13, 2023 10 min read
Python Python Pandas for Network Engineers Overview As a network engineer, I often find myself working with CSV files on a daily basis. For example, if Suresh Vina Jan 6, 2023 7 min read
Python Palo Alto Create Bulk Address Objects using REST API + Python If you are working with firewalls on a daily basis, at some point you are going to come across having Suresh Vina Dec 3, 2022 4 min read