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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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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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