The get() method is a very useful method for retrieving values from dictionaries. While methods like keys(), values(), and items() are also useful for retrieving values from dictionaries, the get() method is unique in that it let’s you specify a default value that will be returned if the key you’ve tried to retrieve from the dictionary does not exist.
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Understanding Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud
What is Prisma Cloud?
Prisma Cloud is an API-based cloud service from Palo Alto Networks that connects to your cloud environments in just minutes and aggregates volumes of raw configuration data, user activity information, and network traffic to analyze and produce concise and actionable insights.
Lookup secrets from AWS Secrets Manager using Python
In an earlier post, I showed how to retrieve credentials from AWS Secrets Manager using Ansible. This can be a useful way to get around storing sensitive credentials within your code repositories.
This post will show how to achieve the same thing using Python.
Setting up Cortex XSOAR Community edition
I recently had a requirement to install Cortex XSOAR Community edition in AWS.
First thing I suggest you do is idenfify the requirements of the host server. This is well-documented by Palo Alto Networks here.
For my installation, I provisioned an instance in AWS with the following details:
