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Palo Alto Firewall Engineer

Specialise in one of the most in-demand firewall platforms in the industry.

2 courses Palo Alto Networks

About this program

Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls protect a large share of enterprise networks, and organisations struggle to find engineers who can run them well. This program takes you from administering the platform to engineering it at scale.

You learn security policy, NAT, application and user identification, threat prevention, VPN, centralised management with Panorama, and cloud-delivered security.

Who it's for: Network and security administrators, support engineers and anyone who wants to build a career around Palo Alto Networks technology.

Skills you will build

NGFW architecture and setupSecurity policy and NATApp-ID and User-IDThreat prevention and URL filteringGlobalProtect VPNPanorama managementAdvanced routingWildFire and cloud security

Career path

1. Entry level
  • Firewall administrator
  • Security operations support
  • NOC engineer
2. Mid level
  • Network security engineer
  • Firewall engineer
  • Managed-security-services engineer
3. Senior level
  • Security architect
  • Security consultant
  • Network security lead

Industry trends

Zero-trust segmentation

Firewalls now enforce fine-grained policy inside the network, not just at the edge.

SASE and cloud-delivered security

Security services are increasingly delivered from the cloud to branches and remote users.

Platform consolidation

Organisations prefer fewer, integrated security platforms over many point tools.

Automation and APIs

Policy and deployment are increasingly automated with infrastructure as code.

Certification roadmap

Courses in this program

PCNSA Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Certified Network Security Administrator

NGFW architecture and setup, security policies and NAT, Content-ID, URL filtering, GlobalProtect.

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4 modules
  1. Palo Alto NGFW Architecture Initial Setup
  2. Security Policies NAT Configuration
  3. Content ID URL Filtering Threat Prevention
  4. GlobalProtect VPN Monitoring
PCNSE Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer

Advanced architecture and Panorama, routing and network design, WildFire, cloud security and SASE.

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4 modules
  1. Advanced Architecture Panorama
  2. Advanced Routing Network Design
  3. Advanced Threat Prevention WildFire
  4. Cloud Security SASE Troubleshooting Mastery
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