I often need a Palo Alto firewall to test new features or just to try out a lab exercise. But a hardware appliance is not always available. Running a virtual firewall in a home lab environment using GNS3 or Eve-ng is useful. But typically, I need to be connected to the home network to use … Read more
Cloudwatch Insights allows you to search and analyze your log data that was sent to Amazon CloudWatch. CloudWatch Log Insights automatically discovers fields in logs from AWS services such as Amazon Route 53, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon VPC When you navigate to Logs Insights in the AWS Console and select the log group … Read more
In this post, I summarize the AWS fundamental building blocks covered in the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam.
Palo Alto Networks firewalls support a process known as ‘bootstrapping’ which allows you create a repeatable way of provisioning your new firewalls. It allows you deploy basic configuration to the firewall upon startup.
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.
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.