Cyber Security - Palo Alto Security Policies(1)

Security policies:

• Enforcing network traffic by configuring rules of what is allowed or denied to communicate between logical network segments (zones)
• Traffic can be policed with the following parameters:
  • IP Address (source and/or destination)
  • Users
  • Services(ports)
  • Applications

(From Packt)

• Enforcement hierarchy:
  • Is essential to understand the security policy order of enforcement to avoid policy overruling
  • "A clean policy table limits the possibility of policy overruling"

Task 1

Please block the student wireless network from reaching the server subnet.

Source Zone         Source Address

Student Wireless:   10.10.0.0/22

Server Subnet:      10.30.0.0/23

Destination Zone    Destination Address

Configure the firewall policy.

Task 2

We are getting complaints of employees watching Netflix during work hours and it's causing our internet connection to crawl.

- Please block the employee subnet 10.25.0.0/23 from accessing Netflix.

Configure the firewall policy.