Wednesday, January 19, 2022

by Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member, Chicago Fuel Chapter Leader

Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale.
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.

Oh, wait, sorry. That’s the theme to Gilligan’s Island. Our journey isn’t nearly that dramatic or that long in duration.

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

By Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member, Chicago Chapter Leader

Sed is a *nix-based (Unix and Linux) text editing tool that allows you to rapidly change out text in a file in a single place or multiple via command-line or with a script. In this video how-to, Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee member and Chicago chapter leader, provides an overview of sed and shows examples of how a *nix administrator can utilize it in their daily work.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

By Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member, Chicago Chapter Leader

Elasticsearch is a very powerful distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. In this video, Charles Buege, Fuel EAC member and Chicago chapter leader, shows you how to go about setting up your own basic Elasticsearch cluster. From here, you can then expand this into your own needs, scale it out across as many nodes as you'd like and start working with this exceptionally versatile open source tool.

Friday, February 12, 2021

By Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member, Chicago Fuel Chapter Leader

When it comes to automation, one of the most important tools to have is knowing how to make API calls. The PAN-OS has several different ways of doing this. In this article, I will concentrate on version 10, since it’s the latest version of the PAN-OS, and I will also be using the REST API instead of the XML API primarily, as that is my personal preference. There is one point where using the XML API is the only option and I will go into that later on.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

By Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member

At Palo Alto Networks’ Ignite ’20 virtual conference last November, Brittany Barbehenn and Alex Hinchliffe of Unit 42 gave a fantastic summary of several items that their research team had seen thus far on the different attack vectors out there. Here, we provide a rundown of the attacks they shared to keep on your radar in the new year and beyond.

Thursday, November 19, 2020

By Charles Buege, Fuel User Group Member

A few weekends ago, I embarked on the adventure of upgrading my PA-220 to PAN-OS 10. With the articles I’ve written in the past and since version 10 has been out for a while now, I wanted to start getting some experience with it myself, so I figured it was time to pull the trigger and upgrade my lab.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

By Charles Buege, Fuel User Group Member

When working on your Palo Alto Networks Firewall with Active Directory Integration, you may find it occasionally necessary to grant access to some users who need certain levels of access, but not full access. In my case, I recently had two specific instances where I needed to grant two different people these levels of administrative access:

Thursday, June 25, 2020

By Charles Buege, Fuel User Group Member

When you’re setting up a Palo Alto Networks firewall, after getting the initial IP address configured for the management interface, setting up integration into other servers in your environment is a very common, early step. This article will go into the necessary steps to set up Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration into an Active Directory environment.

Thursday, May 21, 2020

By Charles Buege, Fuel User Group Member

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with information on how to create a GlobalProtect Portal since its original publication in February 2020.

You’ve just entered the wonderful world of Palo Alto Networks and have found that your users need to be able to access work resources remotely. This means you’ll need to set up VPN access for them. In the parlance of Palo Alto Networks, this means you’ll also need to set up the GlobalProtect VPN client. This article will review how to set up the client for your usage.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

By Charles Buege, Fuel User Group Member 

You’ve just begun using Palo Alto Networks technology and have found that your users need to access work resources remotely. This means you’ll need VPN access and, in the parlance of Palo Alto Networks, you’ll also need to set up the GlobalProtect VPN client. This article will review how to set up the client for your usage.