Panorama Device Groups and Templates (with examples)
Overview
People who follow my blog may probably know that I'm a big fan of Cisco ASA firewalls
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Firewall
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How to Protect GlobalProtect Portal from Brute Force Attacks?
As soon as you configure GlobalProtect and go to the monitor tab, you will see hundreds or even thousands of
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Global Protect Internal Host Detection & Internal Gateways - Lessons Learnt
I already had Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN configured with an external gateway and portal, allowing me to connect back to
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FortiGate Radius Administrator Login with Cisco ISE
Let’s assume a simple scenario. You have two different teams managing your FortiGate firewalls. One team is made up
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Managing Palo Alto App-ID Changes Using Threat Signature Indicators (TSID)
If you rely heavily on Palo Alto App-IDs, you know the challenge of managing new and modified App-IDs.
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Palo Alto Global Protect VPN Configuration Example
In this blog post, we will cover how to configure Palo Alto Global Protect VPN. We'll go through
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Palo Alto How to Configure SSL Decryption?
Most websites we access today use HTTPS, and to fully leverage a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) like Palo Alto, inspecting
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Palo Alto App-ID - How Does It Work?
If you've ever worked with traditional Layer 4 firewalls, you might be familiar with configuring security policies based
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Palo Alto NAT Example
Most of the time, you'll be working with two types of NAT - Source NAT and Destination NAT. Source
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Palo Alto Object and Policy Cleanup with pan-os-php
Hi all, welcome back to yet another Palo Alto Automation post. If you work with firewalls, you know that one
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How to Best Use Panorama Templates and Stacks?
I’ve been working with Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama for a few years now, yet the best ways to
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Palo Alto Automated Scheduled Configuration Backup
I'm writing this in February 2025, and as far as I know, Palo Alto firewalls (not Panorama) don’
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Palo Alto Clientless VPN Configuration
As the title suggests, Palo Alto's clientless VPN allows users to access internal resources (HTTPS-based) without installing
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Combining URL Categories on Palo Alto
We know that in Palo Alto, or in any NGFW, we can allow or block various URL categories. Speaking specifically
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Palo Alto SSL Decryption and App-ID
If you work with Palo Alto firewalls, you might have heard of App-ID. They work well and let us
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Palo Alto - Remove Unused Address Objects Using pan-os-php
If you’ve worked with Palo Alto firewalls, you might have noticed they don’t make it easy to get
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Palo Alto Allow Access To Certain URLs Matching A Blocked URL Category
If you use URL filtering on your Palo Alto firewalls, you may come across situations where a specific URL category
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Why You Should Change Palo Alto Master Key?
Palo Alto firewalls come with a default master key used to encrypt passwords, secrets, and certificates. If your firewall is
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