To reduce the risk of cyber threats and to protect against certain vulnerabilities, UW–Madison has employed the advanced features of Palo Alto Next Generation Firewall (Source: paloaltonetworks.com). Those tasked with understanding the ins and outs of Palo Alto may find the learning curve to be steep. To help, we have gathered training and support articles for firewall efforts such as installing a VPN client, adding firewall rules, creating custom reports and much more.
As you work through these training pieces, we ask that you keep the baseline practices in mind. This will help to ensure that items such as naming conventions, adding tags to rules, and maintaining accurate documentation are aligned across campus units.
Resources
Palo Alto rulesets on UW–Madison Wireless and WiscVPN networks: https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=86279
A collection of KB articles and training videos: https://kb.wisc.edu/91674
Palo Alto Network on-demand training, https://beacon.paloaltonetworks.com/.
- NOTE: You must first register here with your NetID, support.paloaltonetworks.com. Once you have been approved by a designated UW administrator, you will have access to all free on-Demand training material provided by Palo Alto.
Background
Cybersecurity to the Edge (C2E) is a broad set of initiatives focused on significantly reducing risk across the campus landscape. One of the high-priority efforts within C2E is improving campus network protection (aka “the firewall”).