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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Third Edition
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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Third Edition

by Tom Piens aka 'reaper'
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
15h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting up a New Device

In this chapter, we will cover how you can gain access to the console and web interface of a fresh-out-of-the-box firewall appliance or a cleanly staged virtual machine (VM). You will learn how to license, update, and upgrade the firewall so that the latest features are available when you start building your security policy, and the latest signatures are always loaded onto the device to protect your users and infrastructure from malware and vulnerability exploits.

We are going to harden your management configuration to ensure a rigid security stance, and we will also look at the different types of network interface modes—aggregated interfaces and routing.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics: ...

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ISBN: 9781836644811