EDU-210 Firewall Essentials Training Course
Length
5 days
Price
$3999
Days
Mon - Wed
Why Choose This Course
EDU-210 – Firewall Essentials: Configuration & Management is an extremely hands-on course which enables you to know how to configure, manage, and monitor next generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks. By using a live class environment online, you will know how to implement the firewall, manage it safely, and know how it works via log analysis and reporting.
The course builds the day-to-day administration skills that matter in production. You’ll work through configuration management (saving, restoring, and safely reviewing changes), administrator access and authentication approaches, and the steps required to connect the firewall to production networks using interfaces, routing, and security zones. From there, you’ll learn how to create and test security policy rules and NAT rules, then confirm behaviour using traffic logs, hit counts, and practical verification checks.
Security controls are covered as applied work, not theory. You’ll look at ways to reduce common attack exposure using zone protection and DoS controls, apply security profiles to strengthen policy outcomes, and handle encrypted traffic with decryption policies and certificates while keeping verification and logging front and centre. If you’re also preparing for a role-based certification path, EDU-210 is commonly positioned as recommended training for the Palo Alto Networks Certified Next-Generation Firewall Engineer certification.
Prerequisites
- Networking knowledge is required, covering topics such as routing, switching, and IP address management. Knowledge in security fundamentals is also required. Prior experience with other security devices, such as IPS, proxy, and content filtering systems, is an advantage.
Exam
- EDU-210: Palo Alto Networks Certified Next-Generation Firewall Engineer
Books
- EDU-210 course material included.
Delivery
- Face-to-Face
- Live Virtual Instructor-led
Training
Skills Gained
- Set up and validate firewall management access and basic system settings
- Configure update services and perform baseline operational checks
- Save, export, and restore configuration snapshots for safer change management
- Preview and revert configuration changes to reduce operational risk
- Create and manage administrator accounts, roles, and authentication sequences
- Configure enterprise authentication integrations (for example, directory and RADIUS-based approaches)
- Build Layer 3 interfaces and connect a firewall to production networks
- Create virtual routing and verify routing and connectivity outcomes
- Segment environments using security zones to control traffic flows
- Apply interface management controls and test access behaviour before and after changes
- Create, test, and refine security policy rules for business applications
- Create and validate source and destination NAT rules for real connectivity scenarios
- Use traffic logs and rule hit counts to verify behaviour and troubleshoot issues
- Implement application-aware policy controls and maintain application-based rules over time
- Schedule and manage updates in a controlled way to support ongoing operations
- Configure zone protection controls to reduce exposure to floods and reconnaissance activity
- Implement DoS protection approaches to protect resources and service availability
- Create and apply security profiles and profile groups to standardise protections
- Apply practical policy governance techniques (for example, rule tagging and rule requirements)
- Implement decryption policies for outbound traffic and validate outcomes using logs
Audience
This course is best suited to professionals responsible for firewall administration and day-to-day network security operations, including:
- Security engineers
- Security administrators
- Security operations specialists
- Security analysts
- Support staff involved in firewall operations and troubleshooting
Course Schedule & Pricing
Choose the schedule that fits your life — all options include full course materials & certification support
Full-time immersion for rapid certification readiness.
Balance your career while you upgrade your skills.
Maximum flexibility for busy working professionals.
Outline
Foundations and platform orientation
- Next-generation firewall concepts and operational role in enterprise security
- Management access basics: secure connectivity and access restrictions
- Update services: DNS, NTP, and software update checks
- Baseline setup and initial device configuration workflows
Configuration management and operational safety
- Named configuration snapshots: save, load, and export
- Commit workflow basics, including safe review of planned changes
- Previewing configuration changes before committing
- Reverting ongoing changes and restoring known-good states
- Working with log files: locating key events and validating outcomes
- Building effective log filters and using filter builders
Administrator access and authentication
- Local administrators and role-based permissions
- Authentication profiles and authentication sequences
- Integrating enterprise authentication approaches (directory and RADIUS patterns)
- Managing administrative access controls for operational teams
Connecting to production networks
- Building Layer 3 interfaces and validating connectivity
- Creating a virtual router and basic routing behaviour checks
- Segmenting the network with security zones for policy control
- Interface management profiles and access testing
Policy implementation: security and NAT
- Creating security policy rules and validating with traffic tests
- Modifying policy table views to support operations and troubleshooting
- Reviewing traffic logs and rule hit counts for verification
- Building internet access policies and controlled outbound connectivity
- Implementing source NAT policies and verifying translation behaviour
- Implementing destination NAT policies and validating reachability
Application-aware policy management
- Building application-focused security rules for non-standard ports
- Using policy optimisation approaches to refine rules over time
- Scheduling application-related updates to support policy accuracy
Resilience and threat reduction controls
- Zone protection profiles for SYN floods and reconnaissance patterns
- DoS protection profiles and DoS policy concepts for availability
- Validating protection behaviour with controlled test traffic
Security profiles and day-one controls
- Creating vulnerability and file blocking security profiles
- Creating data filtering profiles and applying consistent controls
- Building security profile groups and attaching them to policies
- Tagging and basic policy governance practices for maintainability
Encrypted traffic controls
- Decryption concepts and safe implementation boundaries
- Creating self-signed certificates for trusted and untrusted connections
- Creating decryption policy for outbound traffic and validating results
- Exporting and importing certificates to support trust requirements
- Excluding categories from decryption and confirming expected behaviour
- Reviewing logs to validate security outcomes and troubleshoot issues
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
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