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Captive Portals and Not So Captive Portals

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| Blog, Palo Alto
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A few years ago as I was first cutting my teeth in the Palo Alto firewall world, I had a customer request something “unique” and I created a one-off solution. The request was to have a stand-alone portal that the end-users could go to and log in to gain additional access to resources. The reason […]

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AI RRM It’s What’s On the Air

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| cisco, Tech Field Day, wireless
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Traditionally, network engineers are used to having to manage the channel and power level for the access points in their environment. This has caused a long-standing debate between those that trust Radio Resource Monitoring (RRM) and those that insist on statically assigning these values. I’m generally on the side of trusting RRM, but that’s mainly […]

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PCNSA 3.6

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| Certification, Palo Alto, PCNSA
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Identify features used to streamline App-ID policy creation. Palo Alto Networks PCNSA Study Guide v10 Application Tags Starting with PAN-OS 9.1, many applications come with predefined tags in the App-ID database. The tags are assigned based on characteristics. You can view them in Objects>Applications. You can create custom tags in Objects>Tags and then assign the […]

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PCNSA 3.5

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| Certification, Palo Alto, PCNSA
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Identify the tools to optimize Security plicies. Palo Alto Networks PCNSA Study Guide v10 Policy Optimizer The policy optimizer helps to identify port based rules that can be converted to App-ID based rules for better visibility and security. It also calls out App-ID rules with unused applications (over-provisioned). Application based rules increase security by only […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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