{"id":1260,"date":"2021-02-08T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packitforwarding.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2021-02-07T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T04:11:25","slug":"pcnsa-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packitforwarding.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/pcnsa-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PCNSA &#8211; 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Identify the components of the Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Portfolio.<\/p><cite>Palo Alto PCNSA Study Guide v10<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strata<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Strata consist of the Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls along with the security subscriptions that can be used on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next-Generation Firewalls<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VM-Series<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The VM-Series firewalls provide all of the capabilities of the Palo Alto NGFW in a virtual format that can be used in any of the following virtualization environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alibaba Cloud<\/li><li>Amazon Web Services<\/li><li>Cisco ACI<\/li><li>Citrix NetScaler SDX<\/li><li>Google CloudPlatform<\/li><li>Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)<\/li><li>Microsoft Hyper-V<\/li><li>Microsoft Azure<\/li><li>OpenStack<\/li><li>Oracle Cloud Infrastructure<\/li><li>VMware ESXi<\/li><li>VMware NSX<\/li><li>VMware vCloud Air<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CN-Series<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The container native series firewall is designed specifically for use in Kubernetes environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PA-Series<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The PA-Series are the physical firewall appliances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PA-220<\/li><li>PA-800<\/li><li>PA-3200<\/li><li>PA-5200<\/li><li>PA-7000<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Security Subscriptions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Threat Prevention (TP): This subscription adds the ability for the firewall to do IPS inspection of traffic to stop exploitation of vulnerabilities, malware protection and blocks command and control traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>URL Filtering (UF): Provides URL filtering using the PAN-DB. 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