Intro and goal of this post: Importance of best practice analysis How Indeni differs from manual checks and the Palo Alto Networks BPA tool. Best practices covered by Indeni Best Practice Analysis: So, you have made a big investment in security with your firewall and all the features it has enabled. But, how do you […]

This blog post gives a high-level overview of Indeni’s “Air Traffic Control for your NGFW” webinar. You can access the recording here and accompanying cheat-sheet here.  Overview PANW provides good device visibility in their UI and management tools, but unexpected obscure conditions can threaten to take traffic down. You can create your own air traffic […]

Deployment Trends Case Study On March 20th, 2019, approximately 1 month before this post, Palo Alto Networks announced two security vulnerabilities, with a “Medium” rating, and provided fixes via upgraded releases of each of the affected PAN-OS that are currently supported.  This announcement provides a perfect test for the question: Which do businesses value more: […]

Five Reasons why enterprises deploy Indeni with their existing monitoring solutions. 1. Automate High Availability readiness checks Proactively automate tasks to ensure seamless failover in the event of primary firewall failure. Indeni understands how the active/active and active/passive configurations work. For example, we understand the role of the control link, data link and backup links. […]

High Availability, or HA, as most of you reading this know, is a method of configuring firewalls, routers or appliances for redundancy. HA plays a significant role in environments where system uptime is critical to business or customer traffic. It can be setup in various methods depending on vendor such as Active/Active or Active/Passive. These […]

With SSL encryption being such a crucial part of securing your network traffic, you can imagine it also is very important to your company that it works securely and optimally. The goal of this post is to cover the importance of SSL, why it should be decrypted, how it affects firewalls and lastly how Indeni […]

Source We all know it. The Firewall is the scapegoat of the IT infrastructure stack. When something goes awry with the network, the firewall is the first ‘person’ to get the blame. Sometimes the firewall is the culprit, but many times the reason for performance degradation or loss of connectivity is related to another part […]

Introduction The Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls are a part of a security platform that provides a plethora of configuration options within its devices. The results from adequately utilizing the available configuration options provide a strengthened security posture in respect to existing and future information security challenges or organization mandates.    Thus, the installation of […]

Knowing what you want to do in 10+ years is difficult for anybody to identify. It is tricky to recognize what options are available and even trickier figuring out how to get there. Indeni is here to help organize your thoughts with our learning paths and a step by step dream job guide. Indeni presents […]

Introduction Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls (NGFW) are security devices that possess a range of capabilities to meet current and future information security needs. This blog provides the steps to get started on the path to becoming an exceptional Palo Alto Networks administrator. Initial Steps Take the following steps when preparing to manage a Palo […]

Welcome to the Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks has created an excellent security ecosystem which includes cloud, perimeter/network edge, and endpoint solutions. Amongst the company’s product portfolio is a range of next-generation firewalls that provides customers with an industry-leading security solution. These next-generation firewalls contain a multitude of configuration and endless security subscriptions options […]

Nearly every organization has automation as a top priority in 2018, including Palo Alto Networks end users. In an effort to support current and new business initiatives, IT professionals are looking for ways to reduce errors in day to day operations. Selecting which version of hardware and software to deploy from your top vendors is […]