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In the beginning of this year I had successfully passed the PCNSA exam using the Pearson OnVue system. Pearson OnVue is a way to take the exam from home (online proctoring). It’s not as easy as the …
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This is published as part of a series on obtaining the PCNSA certification. Firewall administrators are defined via Panorama (central management) or locally on the firewall. But not everyone should …
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I just finished up the PCNSA Study Guide and now I’m going back to review and lab as much as possible. Gaining access to a Palo Alto Networks firewall is an obvious task in order to manage the …
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Upgrading the software of a Palo Alto Networks firewall (PAN-OS) can be daunting if it’s running in production. If you’ve been in IT long enough, you’ve come across some nightmare upgrades. The …
Upgrading software on firewalls can be daunting. It's even scarier when they're in high availability (HA) mode. Palo Alto Networks firewalls can be configured as an HA pair. But Network …
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I recently added to my lab network is a Palo Alto Networks PA-820 next-generation firewall (NGFW). Over at Packet6, I’ve been getting into the PAN NGFWs for a while now and we are reselling Palo Alto …
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