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About the Course

Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Foundation Course Description: In this course, students will learn fundamental principles associated with the current cybersecurity landscape and identify concepts required to recognize and potentially mitigate attacks against enterprise networks as well as mission critical infrastructure. Students will also learn how to initially setup and configure security zones, authentication, and policies on a next generation firewall. Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: Upon completion of this course students will be able to perform the following: • Discover modern computing trends and application threat vectors. • Configure a network interface and test for connectivity. • Identify cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application challenges. • Explore recent cyberattacks and their impact on business. • Review attacker profiles, motivations and the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle. • Recognize high-profile cybersecurity attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats. • Identify malware types, vulnerabilities, exploits, spamming and phishing attacks. • Configure and test a malware analysis security profile. • Describe how bots and botnets are used to attack enterprise networks. • Explore Zero Trust design principles, architecture, capabilities, and implementation. • Review perimeter network security strategies, policies, models, and trust boundaries. • Setup and configure inside, outside and DMZ security zones on a NGFW. • Create and test an authentication policy on a next generation firewall. • Review capabilities of the Security Operating Platform and components. • Explore how to secure the enterprise with NGFW and Traps endpoint protection. • Discover how to secure the cloud with Prisma Access, SaaS, and Cloud. • Examine how to secure the future with Cortex Data Lake and XDR. • Apply two-factor authentication on the next generation firewall (NGFW). • Configure the NGFW to allow only trusted applications....

Top reviews

AM

Aug 21, 2025

I like the fact we are working with real products and real solutions with a well-renowned leader. Hopefully this will lead me to a place where I get to use a PAN NGFW too..:)

CR

Jun 12, 2025

this was a fun course it was an esteem booster to see what i did and definitely enhanced my weak areas i am terrible with testing sometimes

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By amjad k

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Mar 12, 2023

I am very excited to gain this course and its help me alot to learn more about cybersecurity.

By Orlando A G R

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Sep 4, 2023

Excelente curso, todos los materiales aporta información valiosa. Muchas gracias!!!

By Adnan A

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Nov 28, 2021

Nicely packed Foundation course. There is a room to improve though.

By PAUL M

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Jun 16, 2025

Quite informative and covers the fundamentals of cyber security!

By Athos C

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Aug 28, 2023

TOP - very well explained, a lot of informations/pdf/audio/video

By Vitor V V

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Oct 16, 2023

Muy buen curso, con material completo y explicaciones sencillas

By Handy F

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Feb 19, 2022

Great, nice course for who want to learn about cyber security

By Aniket S

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Jan 22, 2022

good understanding of basics were given in the course

By Albert A D C

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Sep 3, 2025

I love this foundational course. Thank you Coursera!

By JOSÉ G M

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Jun 10, 2025

Excelentes conocimientos que comparten en este curso

By Daniel B

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Mar 26, 2022

It was perfect, I loved the trainer way of teaching.

By Deleted A

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Oct 13, 2024

Highly professional course for CyberSecurity roles.

By Saiprashanth G

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Sep 14, 2022

Very Useful and They Provided good conent

By Farid S

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Mar 27, 2023

It was a great addition to my experience

By Quentin M (

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Jan 5, 2023

Very interesting and efficient. Thanx !

By Muaz I

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Apr 22, 2022

Week 5 - needs to be slowed down a bit

By Scott B

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Mar 8, 2024

Top of the line gear from Palo Alto.

By M R R

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Dec 24, 2021

Good for people of Cybersecurity

By Ruben A

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Dec 9, 2021

Great course! lot of resources

By Muhammad G B

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Dec 14, 2022

Excellent learning course

By Muzammil Z

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Mar 9, 2025

thanks for nice course

By AMAN V

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Nov 16, 2024

Good for understanding

By Sarbinaz

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Apr 14, 2025

очень хорошии курс

By pasan

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Mar 27, 2024

Very good content

By Zoltán G S

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Sep 14, 2023

Very good course.