Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer. Pcnse

Our PCNSE Certification Training, offered by EMIGO NETWORKS, is one of the premier courses for network security professionals.

Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer. PCNSE Training and Certification

The PCNSE certification validates your expertise in designing, deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks-based network security implementations. It demonstrates your in-depth knowledge of the Palo Alto Networks product portfolio, enabling you to make full use of it in various implementations. Achieving this certification signifies your ability to correctly deploy firewalls while leveraging the entire platform.

Course Overview

The PCNSE Certification from Palo Alto Networks is designed to assess and validate the comprehensive knowledge and expertise needed to effectively design, implement, operate, manage, and troubleshoot Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls. This certification demonstrates your proficiency in securing networks using advanced firewall technologies and is ideal for network security professionals aiming to enhance their skills and advance their careers in cybersecurity.

If you are aiming for a career in network security, Emigo Networks offers the ideal training for the Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) certification.

The PCNSE certification is highly regarded in the IT industry, validating your expertise in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls. As the demand for skilled network security professionals continues to grow, this certification equips you with the advanced knowledge and skills necessary to excel in the evolving field of network security.

Emigo Networks provides comprehensive training that will help you master the essential skills needed to become a certified expert in Palo Alto Networks security solutions.

What You'll Learn

Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Palo Alto Networks security solutions.
Implement advanced firewall policies, NAT, and VPNs for secure network operations.
Troubleshoot and optimize network security deployments to ensure high performance and reliability.
Apply best practices for threat prevention, traffic monitoring, and security management.
Leverage the full Palo Alto Networks product portfolio for enterprise-grade security solutions.

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Syllabus Summary

Core Concepts

• 1.1 Identify how Palo Alto Networks products work together to improve PAN-OS services

› 1.1.1 Security components

› 1.1.2 Firewall components

› 1.1.3 Panorama components

› 1.1.4 PAN-OS subscriptions and the features they enable

› 1.1.5 Plug-in components

› 1.1.6 Heatmap and BPA reports

› 1.1.7 Artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)/Telemetry

› 1.1.8 IPv6 1.1.9 Internet of things (IoT)

• 1.2 Determine and assess appropriate interface or zone types for various environments

› 1.2.1 Layer 2 interfaces

› 1.2.2 Layer 3 interfaces

› 1.2.3 Virtual wire (vwire) interfaces

› 1.2.4 Tap interfaces

› 1.2.5 Subinterfaces

› 1.2.6 Tunnel interfaces

› 1.2.7 Aggregate interfaces

› 1.2.8 Loopback interfaces

› 1.2.9 Decrypt mirror interfaces

› 1.2.10 VLAN interfaces

• 1.3 Identify decryption deployment strategies

› 1.3.1 Risks and implications of enabling decryption

› 1.3.2 Use cases 1.3.3 Decryption types

› 1.3.4 Decryption profiles and certificates

› 1.3.5 Create decryption policy in the firewall

› 1.3.6 Configure SSH Proxy

• 1.4 Enforce User-ID

› 1.4.1 Methods of building user-to-IP mappings

› 1.4.2 Determine if User-ID agent or agentless should be used

› 1.4.3 Compare and contrast User-ID agents

› 1.4.4 Methods of User-ID redistribution

› 1.4.5 Methods of group mapping

› 1.4.6 Server profile & authentication profile

• 1.5 Determine how and when to use the Authentication policy

› 1.5.1 Purpose of, and use case for, the Authentication policy

› 1.5.2 Dependencies

› 1.5.3 Captive portal versus GlobalProtect (GP) client

• 1.6 Differentiate between the fundamental functions that reside on the management plane and data plane

• 1.7 Define multiple virtual systems (multi-vsys) environment

› 1.7.1 User-ID hub

› 1.7.2 Inter-vsys routing

› 1.7.3 Service routes

› 1.7.4 Administration

Deploy and Configure Core Components

• 2.1 Configure management profiles

› 2.1.1 Interface management profile

› 2.1.2 SSL/TLS service profile

• 2.2 Deploy and configure Security profiles

› 2.2.1 Custom configuration of different Security profiles and Security profile groups

› 2.2.2 Relationship between URL filtering and credential theft prevention

› 2.2.3 Use of username and domain name in HTTP header insertion

› 2.2.4 DNS Security

› 2.2.5 How to tune or add exceptions to a Security profile

› 2.2.6 Compare and contrast threat prevention and advanced threat prevention

› 2.2.7 Compare and contrast URL Filtering and Advanced URL Filtering

• 2.3 Configure zone protection, packet buffer protection, and DoS protection

› 2.3.1 Customized values versus default settings

› 2.3.2 Classified versus aggregate profile types

› 2.3.3 Layer 3 and Layer 4 header inspection

• 2.4 Design the deployment configuration of a Palo Alto Networks firewall

› 2.4.1 Advanced high availability (HA) deployments

› 2.4.2 HA pair

› 2.4.3 Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

› 2.4.4 Bootstrapping

• 2.5 Configure authorization, authentication, and device access

› 2.5.1 Role-based access control for authorization

› 2.5.2 Different methods used to authenticate

› 2.5.3 The authentication sequence

› 2.5.4 The device access method

• 2.6 Configure and manage certificates

› 2.6.1 Usage

› 2.6.2 Profiles

› 2.6.3 Chains

• 2.7 Configure routing

› 2.7.1 Dynamic routing

› 2.7.2 Redistribution profiles

› 2.7.3 Static routes

› 2.7.4 Path monitoring

› 2.7.5 Policy-based forwarding

› 2.7.6 Virtual router versus logical router

• 2.8 Configure NAT

› 2.8.1 NAT policy rules

› 2.8.2 Security rules

› 2.8.3 Source NAT

› 2.8.4 No NAT

› 2.8.5 Use session browser to find NAT rule name

› 2.8.6 U-Turn NAT

› 2.8.7 Check HIT counts

• 2.9 Configure site-to-site tunnels

› 2.9.1 IPSec components

› 2.9.2 Static peers and dynamic peers for IPSec

› 2.9.3 IPSec tunnel monitor profiles

› 2.9.4 IPSec tunnel testing

› 2.9.5 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

› 2.9.6 One-to-one and one-to-many tunnels

› 2.9.7 Determine when to use proxy IDs

• 2.10 Configure service routes

› 2.10.1 Default

› 2.10.2 Custom

› 2.10.3 Destination

› 2.10.4 Custom routes for different vsys versus destination routes

› 2.10.5 How to verify service routes

• 2.11 Configure application-based QoS

› 2.11.1 Enablement requirements

› 2.11.2 QoS policy rule

› 2.11.3 Add DSCP/TOS component

› 2.11.4 QoS profile

› 2.11.5 Determine how to control bandwidth use on a per-application basis

› 2.11.6 Use QoS to monitor bandwidth utilization

Deploy and Configure Features and Subscriptions

• 3.1 Configure App-ID

› 3.1.1 Create security rules with App-ID

› 3.1.2 Convert port and protocol rules to App-ID rules

› 3.1.3 Identify the impact of application override to the overall functionality of the firewall

› 3.1.4 Create custom apps and threats

› 3.1.5 Review App-ID dependencies

• 3.2 Configure GlobalProtect

› 3.2.1 GlobalProtect licensing

› 3.2.2 Configure gateway and portal

› 3.2.3 GlobalProtect agent

› 3.2.4 Differentiate between login methods

› 3.2.5 Configure Clientless VPN

› 3.2.6 Host information profile (HIP)

› 3.2.7 Configure multiple gateway agent profiles

› 3.2.8 Split tunneling

• 3.3 Configure decryption

› 3.3.1 Inbound decryption

› 3.3.2 SSL forward proxy

› 3.3.3 SSL decryption exclusions

› 3.3.4 SSH proxy

• 3.4 Configure User-ID

› 3.4.1 User-ID agent and agentless

› 3.4.2 User-ID group mapping

› 3.4.3 Shared User-ID mapping across virtual systems

› 3.4.4 Data redistribution

› 3.4.5 User-ID methods

› 3.4.6 Benefits of using dynamic user groups in policy rules

› 3.4.7 Requirements to support dynamic user groups

› 3.4.8 How GlobalProtect internal and external gateways can be used

• 3.5 Configure WildFire

› 3.5.1 Submission profile

› 3.5.2 Action profile

› 3.5.3 Submissions and verdicts

› 3.5.4 Signature actions

› 3.5.5 File types and file sizes

› 3.5.6 Update schedule

› 3.5.7 Forwarding of decrypted traffic

• 3.6 Configure Web Proxy

› 3.6.1 Transparent proxy

› 3.6.2 Explicit proxy

Deploy and Configure Firewalls Using Panorama

• 4.1 Configure templates and template stacks

› 4.1.1 Components configured in a template

› 4.1.2 How the order of templates in a stack affects the configuration push to a firewall

› 4.1.3 Overriding a template value in a stack

› 4.1.4 Configure variables in templates

› 4.1.5 Relationship between Panorama and devices as pertaining to dynamic updates versions, policy implementation, and/or HA peers

• 4.2 Configure device groups

› 4.2.1 Device group hierarchies

› 4.2.2 Identify what device groups contain

› 4.2.3 Differentiate between different use cases for pre-rules, local rules, the default rules, and post-rules

› 4.2.4 Identify the impact of configuring a primary device

› 4.2.5 Assign firewalls to device groups

• 4.3 Manage firewall configurations within Panorama

› 4.3.1 Licensing

› 4.3.2 Commit recovery feature

› 4.3.3 Automatic commit recovery

› 4.3.4 Commit types and schedules

› 4.3.5 Config backups

› 4.3.6 Commit type options

› 4.3.7 Manage dynamic updates for Panorama and Panorama-managed devices

› 4.3.8 Software and dynamic updates

› 4.3.9 Import firewall configuration into Panorama

› 4.3.10 Configure log collectors

› 4.3.11 Check firewall health and status from Panorama

› 4.3.12 Configure role-based access on Panorama

Manage and Operate

• 5.1 Manage and configure Log Forwarding

› 5.1.1 Identify log types and criticalities

› 5.1.2 Manage external services

› 5.1.3 Create and manage tags

› 5.1.4 Identify system and traffic issues using the web interface and CLI tools

› 5.1.5 Configure Log Forwarding profile and device log settings

› 5.1.6 Log monitoring

› 5.1.7 Customize logging and reporting settings

• 5.2 Plan and execute the process to upgrade a Palo Alto Networks system

› 5.2.1 Single firewall

› 5.2.2 HA pairs

› 5.2.3 Panorama push

› 5.2.4 Dynamic updates

• 5.3 Manage HA functions

› 5.3.1 Link monitoring

› 5.3.2 Path monitoring

› 5.3.3 HA links

› 5.3.4 Failover

› 5.3.5 Active/active and active/passive

› 5.3.6 HA interfaces

› 5.3.7 Clustering

› 5.3.8 Election setting

Troubleshooting

• 6.1 Troubleshoot site-to-site tunnels

› 6.1.1 IPSec

› 6.1.2 GRE

› 6.1.3 One-to-one and one-to-many tunnels

› 6.1.4 Route-based versus policy-based remote hosts

› 6.1.5 Tunnel monitoring

• 6.2 Troubleshoot interfaces

› 6.2.1 Transceivers

› 6.2.2 Settings

› 6.2.3 Aggregate interfaces, LACP

› 6.2.4 Counters

› 6.2.5 Tagging

• 6.3 Troubleshoot decryption

› 6.3.1 Inbound decryption

› 6.3.2 SSL forward proxy

› 6.3.3 SSH proxy

› 6.3.4 Identify what cannot be decrypted and configure exclusions and bypasses

› 6.3.5 Certificates

• 6.4 Troubleshoot routing

› 6.4.1 Dynamic routing

› 6.4.2 Redistribution profiles

› 6.4.3 Static routes

› 6.4.4 Route monitoring

› 6.4.5 Policy-based forwarding

› 6.4.6 Multicast routing

› 6.4.7 Service routes

• 6.5 General Troubleshooting

› 6.5.1 Logs

› 6.5.2 Packet capture (pcap)

› 6.5.3 Reports

• 6.6 Troubleshoot resource protections

› 6.6.1 Zone protection profiles

› 6.6.2 DoS protections

› 6.6.3 Packet buffer protections

• 6.7 Troubleshoot GlobalProtect

› 6.7.1 Portal and Gateway

› 6.7.2 Access to resources

› 6.7.3 GlobalProtect client

• 6.8 Troubleshoot policies

› 6.8.1 NAT

› 6.8.2 Security

› 6.8.3 Decryption

› 6.8.4 Authentication

• 6.9 Troubleshoot HA functions

› 6.9.1 Monitor

› 6.9.2 Failover triggers

Pre-requisites

Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Apprentice
Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Practitioner
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Generalist

Required Exams

Exam: PCNSE
Cost: $175 USD
Duration: 90 Minutes

Who should attend

Designed for professionals in network security engineering, systems engineering, systems integration, and support engineering roles.
Ideal for those who deploy and configure Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls.
Targeted at individuals responsible for the installation, configuration, and management of network security systems.
Suitable for engineers aiming to demonstrate expertise in securing and optimizing network infrastructures with Palo Alto Networks solutions.

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1. What is the PCNSE certification?

The PCNSE (Palo Alto Networks Certi ed Network Security Engineer) certi cation validates skills in managing and securing networks using Palo Alto Networks technologies. It demonstrates expertise in conguring, managing, and troubleshooting Next-Generation Firewalls, as well as implementing security best practices and advanced threat prevention.

2. Why should my team consider enrolling in PCNSE certification training?

Enrolling in PCNSE certi cation training equips your team with specialized skills in network security management using Palo Alto Networks solutions. This training covers essential skills for conguring rewalls, preventing threats, and managing security across an organization's network, enhancing the team's cybersecurity pro ciency.

3. Where can I get PCNSE training in India?

Emigo Networks o ers comprehensive PCNSE certi cation training in India. Led by certi ed instructors with expertise in Palo Alto Networks technologies, this program provides both theoretical learning and hands-on lab experience.

4. What is the duration of PCNSE certification training at Emigo Networks?

PCNSE training at Emigo Networks typically lasts between 4 to 6 weeks, depending on participants’ experience levels and the depth of content. This schedule is designed for exibility to accommodate varied learning paces.

5. Does Emigo Networks include hands-on labs in the PCNSE training program?

Yes, Emigo Networks integrates practical labs, enabling participants to work on real-world network security scenarios. This hands-on approach allows trainees to gain valuable experience with Palo Alto Networks security solutions.

6. What are the prerequisites for PCNSE certification?

Although there are no formal prerequisites, participants are advised to have foundational knowledge of networking concepts and some experience with firewall management. Familiarity with Palo Alto Networks products can be bene cial for success.

8. Does Emigo Networks offer online PCNSE certification training?

Yes, Emigo Networks provides online PCNSE training that includes virtual labs and live instruction. This exible format allows participants to join remotely while still gaining interactive, hands-on learning experiences.

10. How does Emigo Networks ensure the PCNSE training material stays current?

Emigo Networks continuously updates its PCNSE training content to re ect the latest trends and developments in Palo Alto Networks technology, ensuring participants gain up-to-date knowledge and skills.

11. Will I receive a certification after completing PCNSE training at Emigo Networks?

Upon completing the course, participants will be well-prepared to take the o cial PCNSE certi cation exam. Emigo Networks also provides exam preparation support to increase the likelihood of success.

12. What resources are available for preparing for the PCNSE exam?

Emigo Networks o ers a range of exam preparation resources, including practice exams, study materials, and expert guidance to help participants thoroughly prepare for the PCNSE exam.

13. Is PCNSE certification recognized globally?

Yes, PCNSE is an internationally recognized certi cation, valued by organizations worldwide for its emphasis on Palo Alto Networks security technologies. It’s a widely accepted standard in network security.

14. What are the career advantages of earning PCNSE certification?

PCNSE certi cation enhances eligibility for roles such as Network Security Engineer, Security Analyst, Firewall Administrator, and Network Security Consultant, o ering a competitive edge in cybersecurity careers.

15. Can Emigo Networks customize PCNSE training to fit my organization’s needs?

Yes, Emigo Networks provides tailored PCNSE training to address speci c security goals, network environments, and technical requirements, making the training highly relevant and e ective for your organization.

16. What advanced certifications are available after PCNSE?

After achieving PCNSE, you can pursue further specialization with certi cations such as:

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17. What skills will my team gain from PCNSE training at Emigo Networks?

Trainees will acquire expertise in rewall conguration, security policy management, network tra c monitoring, incident response, and advanced threat prevention techniques, enhancing their network security skillset.

20. What job roles are best suited for PCNSE-certified professionals?

The PCNSE certi cation is ideal for Network Security Engineers, Firewall Administrators, Cybersecurity Engineers, and IT Security Consultants responsible for implementing and managing Palo Alto Networks solutions.

21. What support is available from Emigo Networks after completing PCNSE training?

Emigo Networks provides post-training support, including access to additional study resources, troubleshooting help, and guidance to assist participants in exam preparation and transition to professional roles.

22. How can I register for PCNSE training at Emigo Networks?

You can register by contacting Emigo Networks in India. The team will provide details on the enrollment process and guide you through course-related queries.

23. Which is the best institute for Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) certification training?

Emigo Networks is regarded as a leading institute for PCNSE certi cation training in India due to its expert instructors, hands-on labs, up-to-date curriculum, and personalized approach, all aimed at maximizing participants’ learning experience.

25. Does Emigo Networks provide practice exams during PCNSE training?

Yes, Emigo Networks includes practice exams in its PCNSE training to familiarize participants with the exam format and question types, increasing condence and readiness for the o cial certi cation exam.

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