A comprehensive, multi-vendor firewall and VPN specialist program covering the four most in-demand enterprise firewall platforms: Cisco ASA, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD), Palo Alto Networks NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate.
You build deep, hands-on skills on each platform: firewall administration, interfaces and routing, NAT, security policy and inspection, high availability, and the complete VPN stack (site-to-site IPsec and remote-access / SSL VPN) on every vendor. You also learn how the same security concepts translate across platforms, making you a versatile engineer who can design, deploy, secure and migrate firewalls in any multi-vendor environment.
Every topic is taught lab-first, so you finish ready to operate Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls and VPNs in production and to pursue the certification tracks of all four vendors.
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At a Glance
A snapshot of what makes this course standout.
Four firewall platforms in one program: Cisco ASA, Cisco FTD, Palo Alto NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate.
Complete firewall and VPN coverage on every vendor: policy, NAT, inspection, HA, site-to-site and remote-access VPN.
Hands-on labs on real Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet platforms (ASA, FTD / FMC, Panorama, FortiManager).
Cross-vendor perspective: design, deploy, secure and migrate firewalls in any environment.
Maps to the certification tracks of all four vendors (Cisco CCNP Security, Palo Alto PCNSA / PCNSE, Fortinet NSE).
Scenario-based learning with real-world case studies and troubleshooting.
Instructor-led training, certificate of completion and placement assistance.
Prerequisites
Baseline knowledge for this course.
At least CCNA level networking knowledge is recommended.
Enthusiasm to build a career in cybersecurity and network security.
Learning Formats
Schedules and formats available.
Days
Mon-Fri
Duration
3 months
Time
2 hours per session
How to Attend
Available online or in person.
Held at all Techboxx Campuses
Physical classroom experience
What you learn
Overview of topics covered in this course
Cisco ASA firewall architecture and fundamentals; routed and transparent firewall modes; single and multiple security context deployment; management access via ASDM, CLI, SSH, Telnet and HTTPS; licensing, software image management, and running vs. startup configuration management and backups.
Configuring physical, sub-interface, EtherChannel and redundant interfaces; security levels and inter-interface traffic rules; static and default routing; dynamic routing with OSPF, EIGRP and BGP on the ASA; route tracking and SLA monitoring.
ASA NAT architecture; Auto (object) NAT and Manual (twice) NAT; static NAT, dynamic NAT and Port Address Translation (PAT); identity NAT and NAT for VPN traffic; NAT order of operations and troubleshooting.
Access control lists and object groups; the Modular Policy Framework (MPF) with class maps, policy maps and service policies; application-layer inspection; connection limits and timeouts; identity firewall and traffic filtering.
Active/Standby failover, Active/Active failover with security contexts, stateful failover, and ASA clustering; redundant and EtherChannel interfaces for resilient deployments.
IKEv1 and IKEv2 site-to-site VPNs; crypto maps and tunnel groups; Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI) based VPNs; certificate and pre-shared-key authentication; site-to-site VPN verification and troubleshooting.
AnyConnect / Cisco Secure Client SSL and IKEv2 remote-access VPN; clientless SSL VPN; group policies, connection profiles and Dynamic Access Policies (DAP); AAA, RADIUS and certificate integration; remote-access VPN troubleshooting.
Logging and syslog, SNMP, packet-tracer and packet capture; connection and xlate tables; troubleshooting NAT, ACL and VPN issues with show and debug commands.
Learn how to deploy Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) in different modes, including routed and transparent. Understand NGIPS deployment methods such as passive and inline for threat prevention. Implement high availability using port channels, failover pairs, ECMP, and route tracking. Explore clustering for scalability and fault tolerance. Gain insights into virtual appliance deployments both on-prem and in the cloud.
Configure core system and security settings using the Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Set up access control, intrusion prevention, malware/file policies, DNS security, identity policies, SSL decryption, and prefiltering. Learn to manage network discovery, app detectors, correlation policies, and encrypted traffic visibility. Work with object groups, NAT rules, VPNs, routing, QoS, and certificates. Also, understand how Snort rules are used in FTD for traffic inspection.
Develop skills to manage and troubleshoot firewalls using FMC’s GUI and CLI tools. Configure and interpret dashboards and detailed reports for network visibility and alerting. Perform advanced troubleshooting using packet captures and Packet Tracer. Learn to assess risk using standard analytics and understand multiple Cisco device management platforms including Cisco Defense Orchestrator and Secure Firewall Device Manager.
Integrate Cisco Secure Firewall with advanced threat detection systems like Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (AMP for Networks) and Cisco Secure Endpoint. Configure Threat Intelligence Director to import third-party threat intel feeds. Learn how SecureX enhances investigations and response. Explore pxGrid integration for contextual threat data sharing and Rapid Threat Containment (RTC) to automatically respond to attacks.
This module covers how to build encrypted connections between fixed locations e.g., between branch offices and data centers. You will configure IPsec, use key exchange like IKEv2, apply policies/security profiles, deploy DMVPN or FlexVPN for scalable multiple site support, and understand how certificates and PKI are used to establish trust. You’ll also learn how to integrate with dynamic routing protocols over these VPNs to maintain resilient connectivity.
You’ll learn how to enable remote users to securely connect into corporate networks via Cisco’s remote access VPN technologies (AnyConnect, SSL VPN, FTD remote access). Topics include posture checks, split-tunneling, tunnel establishment, user authentication (certificates, username/password, etc.), and securing remote endpoints. Understand how to ensure both usability and security for remote workers.
This module dives into how Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) devices support VPNs. You’ll configure remote access on FTD, anyconnect integration, certificate management, advanced VPN options, and how FTD’s threat-focused capabilities interact with VPN traffic. FTD introduces additional features (e.g., logging, inspection) which you must understand to deploy secure and usable remote access.
You’ll get hands-on troubleshooting practice: diagnosing why tunnels don’t establish, authentication failures, packet drops, routing mismatches, certificate issues, and policy misconfigurations. You’ll use CLI debugging, packet captures, logging, show commands, and topology verification to isolate issues. This module ensures you are not just able to build VPNs, but also maintain and fix them under pressure.
Covers operational best practices once VPNs are in production. Think: monitoring, performance tuning, high availability of VPN solutions, certificate rotation/renewal, log management, failover, backup/restore of configurations, and keeping remote access resilient and secure. Also includes securing control plane and data plane, ensuring that your VPN operations are reliable, scalable, and maintainable over time.
This module teaches you how to manage and configure Palo Alto firewalls in real-world environments. You’ll learn how to use management interfaces, set up secure access methods, and enforce restrictions. Identity management, authentication profiles, and role-based access ensure only the right people manage devices. You’ll practice working with firewall configurations: understanding running vs. candidate configs, saving, exporting, and backing up settings. Panorama management is introduced, showing how to push policies and updates across multiple firewalls in a hierarchy. You’ll also schedule dynamic updates, configure security zones, and set up firewall interfaces to ensure secure and efficient traffic flow.
In this module, you’ll learn how to create and organize reusable objects that simplify firewall policy management. You’ll set up address objects and groups, both static and dynamic, and learn how to tag and categorize them. Services and service groups are covered to make firewall rules more precise and easier to maintain. You’ll also work with external dynamic lists (EDLs) to block or allow traffic based on feeds like malicious IPs or domains. Application filters and groups help you categorize apps based on characteristics in Palo Alto’s App-ID database. By the end, you’ll be able to build flexible, scalable, and cleaner firewall configurations.
This module dives into how Palo Alto firewalls evaluate and enforce security policies. You’ll learn to build App-ID - based rules that identify traffic by application, not just port or protocol. You’ll also understand rule types (interzone, intrazone, universal) and how to apply logging, user/device identity, and external dynamic lists in policies. Tools like Policy Test Match and Policy Optimizer help refine policies, reduce redundancies, and improve performance. You’ll also configure NAT (source and destination) for translating IP addresses and managing connectivity. By the end, you’ll know how to design clear, effective policies that balance security with business needs.
This module focuses on protecting your network traffic using Palo Alto’s security profiles. You’ll configure antivirus, anti-spyware, vulnerability protection, URL filtering, and WildFire (malware analysis) to block threats in real time. You’ll also learn how to group and apply these profiles to firewall policies for layered defense. Logs (traffic, threat, data, system) are introduced as powerful tools to analyze what’s happening on your network. You’ll explore DNS Security to stop domain-based attacks and apply URL filtering to control browsing based on categories or custom lists. Finally, you’ll practice user- and group-based access mapping to ensure the right people have the right access.
This module builds your foundation in Palo Alto Networks’ ecosystem. You’ll explore how firewalls, Panorama, and add-on subscriptions like Threat Prevention, WildFire, and DNS Security work together to provide layered protection. Learn about critical features such as App-ID, User-ID, and Content-ID along with support for IPv6, IoT, and AIOps. We’ll also cover interface types: Layer 2, Layer 3, vWire, TAP, tunnel, and more, and when to use them in real deployments. You’ll finish with strategies for SSL and SSH decryption, authentication policies, and multi-vsys environments that large organizations depend on.
In this section, you’ll move from theory to deployment. Learn how to configure management profiles, SSL/TLS service profiles, and granular role-based access controls for secure administration. We’ll cover Security Profiles like Antivirus, Vulnerability Protection, DNS Security, and URL Filtering to stop advanced threats. You’ll also design and test high-availability (HA) firewalls, perform Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), and set up bootstrapping for automation. Finally, dive into NAT, routing, IPSec site-to-site tunnels, certificates, and application-based QoS to control traffic flow and ensure network performance.
This module is all about Palo Alto’s powerful feature set. You’ll master App-ID to control applications, build custom apps and threats, and understand the impact of application override. Next, configure GlobalProtect for secure remote access: including gateways, portals, HIP profiles, and split tunneling. Learn decryption in detail (SSL forward proxy, inbound decryption, exclusions) and implement User-ID with dynamic groups. We’ll also cover WildFire for zero-day malware analysis and Web Proxy (explicit and transparent) for traffic inspection. By the end, you’ll be able to integrate subscriptions into enterprise-level policies with confidence.
Here, you’ll see how large organizations centrally manage security at scale with Panorama. Learn how templates, template stacks, and variables simplify deployment across multiple firewalls. We’ll explore device groups, pre-rules, post-rules, and how inheritance works in complex hierarchies. You’ll practice committing configurations, rolling back changes, and performing dynamic updates from Panorama. Finally, configure log collectors, backups, and role-based access, while ensuring firewalls stay compliant and healthy. This module ensures you can manage not just one device, but entire fleets of them.
In this section, you’ll sharpen your operational skills. Learn to manage and forward logs to external systems, customize reports, and use tags to classify traffic and threats. You’ll plan and execute firewall and Panorama upgrades with zero downtime, both single devices and HA pairs. Explore HA functions such as link monitoring, path monitoring, clustering, and failover strategies for active-active and active-passive environments. These skills ensure you can maintain smooth, secure operations for mission-critical networks.
This final module is all about problem-solving in real time. You’ll learn to troubleshoot IPSec and GRE tunnels, routing issues, NAT, policies, HA failovers, and GlobalProtect access. Dive into decryption troubleshooting with SSL and SSH traffic, certificate handling, and exclusions for non-decryptable traffic. You’ll also master essential tools: logs, counters, PCAPs, and CLI commands, for deep diagnostics. We’ll finish with resource protection tuning, including DoS, zone protection, and packet buffer protections. This module ensures you can not only configure but also fix and optimize firewalls in production environments.
FortiGate architecture and core features, lab environment setup, and administrative access via Telnet, SSH, HTTP and HTTPS. Network connectivity validation, plain-text and encrypted configuration backups, factory-default restore, configuration restore, administrator password recovery, and the FortiGate firmware upgrade process.
IPv4 static and default routing, link monitoring, and zone-based network segmentation. Full RIP, OSPF, IS-IS and BGP implementation - fundamentals, neighbor/peer validation, link-state and routing databases, redistribution, summarization, authentication, route reflectors, aggregation, filtering, offset lists, timers, default-route advertisement and troubleshooting.
IPv6 static and default routing with link monitoring, plus the complete IPv6 dynamic routing stack: RIPng, OSPFv3 (single/multi-area, stub, totally-stub and NSSA areas, summarization, redistribution), IPv6 IS-IS, and IPv6 MP-BGP with route reflectors, aggregation, authentication and redistribution.
NAT concepts and design. IPv4 and IPv6 Static NAT, Port Address Translation (PAT), destination NAT with port forwarding, and user authentication for security policies.
IPsec VPN architecture and design. IPv4 site-to-site VPNs with IKEv1/IKEv2 and certificate-based authentication, validation and troubleshooting. Interoperable VPNs with Cisco routers, ASA and FTD, Palo Alto, Juniper and Sophos XG. Auto-Discovery VPN (ADVPN), dial-up VPN, SSL VPN, and IPv6 site-to-site VPN.
Certificate management fundamentals, SSL inspection, and certificate operations on FortiGate.
Transparent firewall architecture and deployment (IPv4/IPv6), policy-based VPNs in transparent mode, and Virtual Wire (vWire) architecture and deployment.
HA architecture and operation - Active-Passive and Active-Active clusters (IPv4/IPv6). Server Load Balancing design with round-robin and weighted methods (IPv4/IPv6).
Designing and implementing administrative access profiles, plus Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) configuration and verification.
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) architecture and deployment, Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) integration, and Virtual Domains (VDOMs) architecture, configuration and management.
Link Aggregation configuration and deployment, and redundant interface design and implementation for resilient connectivity.
Integrating FortiAnalyzer for centralized logging and reporting, and FortiManager for centralized security management.
Application Control, Antivirus, File Filtering and Web Filtering security profiles, and an understanding of the FortiGate packet-flow lifecycle and parallel-path processing.
Lab Experience
Infrastructure you'll work with hands-on
•ASA firewall for interfaces, routing, NAT, ACL / MPF, failover and IPsec / AnyConnect VPN.
•Secure Firewall Threat Defense and FMC for access control, NAT, IPS, malware policy and VPN.
•PA-Series firewalls and Panorama for App-ID, Content-ID, User-ID, decryption and GlobalProtect VPN.
•FortiGate with FortiManager / FortiAnalyzer for policy, routing, SD-WAN, HA and IPsec / SSL VPN.
•Site-to-site IPsec VPNs between Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls.
Global
For learners outside the subcontinent
$699USD
Regional
Accessible region-based pricing
₹45,000INR
Enterprise
Tailored for teams & organizations
What to Expect?
Personalized consultation, custom training plans tailored to your team, comprehensive progress tracking and reporting, flexible scheduling options, and quote-based pricing designed for your organization's needs.
What you become
Roles and career paths this course opens up
Designs, deploys and secures Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls across the enterprise.
Builds and maintains secure, multi-vendor network and firewall architectures.
Deploys and troubleshoots site-to-site and remote-access VPNs on every major platform.
Plans and executes migrations between Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls.
Operates centralized management, logging and policy across multiple firewall vendors.
Advises on multi-vendor firewall design, security policy and secure connectivity.
Prepares you for
Certifications & career paths
Cisco Secure Firewall (FTD / Firepower) and VPN concentration exams, plus core ASA firewall and VPN skills.
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator and Engineer.
Fortinet FortiOS Administrator and Enterprise Firewall / Advanced Networking.
All four major enterprise firewall platforms: Cisco ASA, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD), Palo Alto Networks NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate, including the full VPN stack on each.
Real enterprises run mixed firewall estates. A multi-vendor specialist can design, operate and migrate across Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet, which makes you far more valuable and employable than a single-vendor engineer.
No. We start from fundamentals on each platform and build up to advanced firewall and VPN engineering. A CCNA-level networking background is recommended.
Yes. Every topic is taught lab-first on real Cisco, Palo Alto and Fortinet platforms, so you configure, verify and troubleshoot each feature yourself.
It maps to the certification tracks of all four vendors: Cisco CCNP Security (300-710 SNCF, 300-730 SVPN), Palo Alto PCNSA and PCNSE, and Fortinet NSE-4 and NSE-7.
Both. Attend live via Livestream or offline at our Karan Nagar, Srinagar centre, always with a live instructor.
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