Strata Cloud Manager - Worth the Hype?
If you use Palo Alto firewalls, typically you manage them in one of two ways. You either log into each
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Automating Let's Encrypt Certificate Renewal for Palo Alto GlobalProtect
If you manage GlobalProtect VPN certificates on Palo Alto and use Let's Encrypt, at some point you will
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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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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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Automating Palo Alto HA Firewall Upgrades with Ansible
In this blog post, we will cover upgrading Palo Alto firewalls in HA using Ansible. This only covers upgrading minor
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Palo Alto Radius Administrator Login with Cisco ISE
Let’s assume a simple scenario. You have two different teams managing your Palo Alto firewalls. One team is made
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Running Palo Alto Firewalls on Proxmox
If you follow me or my blog, you may know that I moved my homelab to Proxmox. Even though I
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Palo Alto Upgrade from 10.2 to 11.2 (PA-440)
I have PA-440 in my home lab and was happily running PAN-OS 10.2.10-h9. But with
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Site-to-site VPN between AWS and Palo Alto (Static & BGP)
In this blog post, we'll look at how to create a site-to-site VPN between AWS and
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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
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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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Trying to Automate Palo Alto Firewall Objects/Rules Cleanup
In this blog post, we will walk you through how to clean up Palo Alto Firewall Objects and Rules using
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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 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 - 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 URL Filtering and SSL Decryption
In my previous blog posts (linked below), we looked at how to allow or block specific websites using URL filtering.
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