New Digital Learnings Added in Beacon (Oct. 2021)

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Beacon added 11 new Digital Learning courses in October 2021.

Did you know that Beacon, Palo Alto Networks’ online hub for educational resources, regularly publishes new trainings and courses?

Each week, new technical assets are published to Beacon, adding to its library of educational content to help our customers confidently install, deploy, and optimize Palo Alto Networks products.

Here are all the digital learnings that were published in Beacon this past month. 

New Digital Learnings Published in October

Threat Prevention Security Subscription

Published October, 2021; Length: 1 hour and 30 minutes 

The Threat Prevention Security Subscription course introduces the Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention subscription, which protects your network by providing multiple layers of prevention, confronting threats at each phase of an attack. In addition to traditional IPS capabilities, Threat Prevention has the unique ability to detect and block threats on all ports instead of invoking signatures based on a limited set of predefined ports.

WildFire Subscription Services

Published October 6, 2021; Length: 40 minutes 

Palo Alto Networks WildFire® malware prevention subscription service is an advanced cloud-based analysis and prevention engine for malware. The WildFire Service identifies previously unknown malware and generates signatures that Palo Alto Networks firewalls can use to then detect and block the malware. The Palo Alto Networks WildFire Subscription Service course provides an overview of the WildFire subscription service and describes how to configure and update WildFire.

Introduction to VM-Series Virtual Firewalls

Published October 7, 2021; Length: 1 hour 

The Palo Alto Networks Introduction to VM-Series Virtual Firewalls course describes the basic overview of the cloud infrastructure. This course also describes system requirements and licensing options for deploying a VM-Series firewall and network integration features.

Cortex XDR 3: Handling Cortex XDR Alerts

Published October 7, 2021; Length: 1 hour

The Cortex XDR 3: Handling Cortex XDR Alerts gives insight into Cortex XDR alerts and how you can analyze alerts in causality and timeline views.

Cortex XDR 3: Performing Investigations

Published October 8, 2021; Length: 1 hour and 18 minutes 

The Cortex XDR 3: Performing Investigations course describes Cortex XDR incidents, as well as how you can investigate files using Hash View, endpoints using Asset View, and networks using IP View.

VM-Series Virtual Firewalls on AWS

Published October 11, 2021; Length: 1 hour and 24 minutes 

The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewalls on AWS course provides an overview of AWS services and concepts related to the VM-Series virtual firewall. This course also describes the options for deploying a VM-Series firewall on AWS and how a VM-Series firewall secures inbound, outbound, and east-west traffic within AWS and how to implement traffic resiliency.

Cortex XDR 3: Building Search Queries

Published October 13, 2021; Length: 1 hour and 18 minutes 

The Cortex XDR 3: Building Search Queries course describes how you can collect data to build and manage queries, as well as how you can run XQL queries using Cortex XDR API.

Cortex XDR 3: Getting Started with Rules

Published October 15, 2021; Length: 45 minutes

The Cortex XDR 3: Getting Started with Rules course describes how to work with behavioral indicators of compromise rules, custom prevention rules, indicators of compromise rules, and rules exceptions.

VM-Series Virtual Firewalls on Azure

Published October 15, 2021; Length: 45 minutes 

The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewalls on Azure course provides an overview of Azure services and concepts related to the VM-Series virtual firewall. This course also describes the system requirements, deployment options, and traffic flows on Azure deployments.

Cortex XSOAR 6.2: Threat Intel Management

Published October 18, 2021; Length: 45 minutes 

This course describes the threat intel capabilities of Cortex XSOAR, including the new features introduced in the 6.2 release.

Prisma Cloud Anomaly Detection

Published October 20, 2021; Length: 40 minutes

The Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Anomaly Detection course describes the out-of-the-box anomaly detection policies and how to configure them to detect possible threat attacks early.

Please visit beacon.paloaltonetworks.com to discover what other educational opportunities are available to you!