PANCast™

What is an Application Level Gateway (ALG) and why is it so important for VOIP traffic?

What to know when migrating to a Palo Alto Networks firewall, common issues you may face during firewall migration, and how to fix them.

A firewall security policy may seem straight-forward enough, but with its suite of  features — appID, userID, URL filtering, SSL decryption, and more — it’s worthwhile to dig into how your policy actually works, the importance of security profiles, and how Palo Alto Networks Best Practice Assessment Tool can help.

Logging is a critical function of your Next-Generation Firewall. In this episode of PANCast™, we’ll discuss the importance of logging and reporting, different types of logs (such as traffic logs and debugging logs), and how to correctly set up logging on your firewall.

High CPU is not something that you want to see — and the dataplane CPU on Palo Alto Networks firewalls is no different. While finding the cause of high CPU can be a challenging task, this episode looks at at the dataplane in detail, common causes for high CPU, and methods for finding the culprit.

URL Filtering is one the Palo Alto Networks firewall's main security and policy enforcement features. Like all features, there are a number of configuration options; in this episode of PANCast, a Palo Alto Networks podcast, we talk about these options and — more importantly — how to make sure your configuration matches what you are trying to achieve.

Split tunneling is commonly used for GlobalProtect VPN. In today's episode we discuss what it is, why you may need to use it and also look at the various options you have in configuring it to make sure you choose the right one.

Upgrading your firewall should be straightforward, but unfortunately that isn't always the case. In just nine minutes, Palo Alto Networks Staff Technical Support Engineer John Arena will run through four key things you need to do when upgrading your firewall.