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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

You're reading from   Mastering Palo Alto Networks Deploy and manage industry-leading PAN-OS 10.x solutions to secure your users and infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956375
Length 514 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: First Steps and Basic Configuration
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Core Technologies FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a New Device 4. Section 2: Advanced Configuration and Putting the Features to Work
5. Chapter 3: Building Strong Policies 6. Chapter 4: Taking Control of Sessions 7. Chapter 5: Services and Operational Modes 8. Chapter 6: Identifying Users and Controlling Access 9. Chapter 7: Managing Firewalls through Panorama 10. Section 3: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
11. Chapter 8: Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama 12. Chapter 9: Logging and Reporting 13. Chapter 10: VPN and Advanced Protection 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting Common Session Issues 15. Chapter 12: A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting 16. Chapter 13: Supporting Tools 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring group mapping

If you are able to identify users on your network, you are also able to create security rules to allow or limit their access to certain resources. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can easily be enforced by binding LDAP groups to security policies, granting members of a certain organization within your company exclusive and reliable access to the resources they need wherever they go.

To get started, we need to create an LDAP profile so we can fetch group information. Go to Device | Server Profiles | LDAP and create a new profile. You will need one LDAP profile per domain in a multidomain or forest configuration.

There needs to be at least one server, but there can be up to four for redundancy. Don't forget to change the port (389 by default) if you're going to use TLS encryption:

  1. Add at least one server by IP or FQDN and set the appropriate port (389 unencrypted, 636 for TLS).
  2. Set the type to active-directory unless you have a different...
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