SecurityCenter & Palo Alto Configuration Guide

About this Guide This guide provides an overview of how to get the most from Palo Alto firewalls when using SecurityCenter Continuous View, Nessus, and Log Correlation Engine (LCE). Covered in this Guide: o Audit Scanning o Log Configuration on PAN-OS (Palo Alto Firewalls) o NetFlow Configuration (PAN-OS & LCE) o LCE Normalized Logs o SecurityCenter Dashboard & Reporting

Audit Scanning SecurityCenter & PAN-OS

PAN-OS Configuration Tasks Create a service account for SecurityCenter to use. Allow SecurityCenter to connect to the management interface. Set up SNMP to be allowed by local security policies.

Service Account Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Device tab On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select Administrators Click the “ADD” button at the bottom of the screen Fill out the fields accordingly

PAN-OS Management Interface Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Device tab. On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select “Setup” & Management Tab Click on the icon located in the “Management Interface Settings” Configure HTTPS/Ping/SNMP management services. Assign the Permitted IP Addresses as necessary

SNMP Configuration Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Device tab On the left hand side, in the menu items, select “Setup” & Operations Tab Click the icon to enter SNMP Configuration Configure the SNMP Settings according to local security policy

SecurityCenter Configuration Tasks Import Audit File Create Credentials Create Scan Policy

Import Audit File Login to SecurityCenter and select Scans > Audit Files Click the button. Enter a search term to locate the appropriate audit file template. Select the appropriate template from the results. Provide a name and description for the audit file in the search window. Click submit to save the file.

Create Credentials Login to SecurityCenter and select Scans > Credentials Click the button SNMP credentials are added here The API credentials are part of the scan policy.

Create Scan Policy Login to SecurityCenter and select Scans > Policies Click the button. Click the Advanced Scan icon. Configure the basic settings as needed. Note: Netstat port scanners are not necessary. Under Compliance, select the audit file that was previously uploaded. Under Plugins, enable plugins & 64286, along with other plugins as necessary. Under Authentication, configure the PAN-OS settings

Log Configuration PAN-OS (Palo Alto Firewalls)

Log Configuration Settings The PAN-OS log configuration settings are in four places. Device > Server Profiles Device > Log Settings Objects > Log Forwarding Policies o All policies are configurable o Permit Policies o Deny Policies

Device > Server Profiles Configure the LCE as the syslog server Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Device tab. On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select Server Profiles > Syslog Create the syslog profile Set the IP address, port, and log level

Device > Log Settings Set up the LCE to collect device level syslog events Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Device tab On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select Log Settings System = Severity Setting Select the syslog server profile for each severity level

Objects > Log Forwarding Log Forwarding is for security policies to use to forward logs. This can be for traffic based events and deny traffic events. Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Objects tab. On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select Log Forwarding. Configure the setting as desired.

Policies Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Policies tab. Note: In this example we will use “Security” policies, but the same concept applies to all types On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select Security. Double-click a Permit policy o Check Log at Session Start|End o Select the Log Forwarding Service Double-click a Deny policy o Check Log at Session Start|End o Select the Log Forwarding Service

Netflow Configuration PAN-OS & LCE

PAN-OS Settings Configure the LCE as the Syslog Server. Login to PAN-OS and navigate to the Device tab. o On the left-hand side, in the menu items, select Server Profiles > Netflow Server o Apply the applicable server settings o Ex: : 9995 Navigate to the Network tab. o On the left-hand side, select Interfaces o Choose the interface for which to capture network traffic. o Apply NetFlow profile

NetFlow Client Download and install the Tenable NetFlow client o The lab was built with the following version: TenableNetFlowMonitor es6.x86_64.rpm Set the LCE Server o /opt/netflow_monitor/set-server-ip.sh o Answer the prompts with the correct information for your environment. o When complete, the NetFlow Monitor daemons will automatically start.

LCE Policy Configuration Login to SecurityCenter as “admin” Select Resources > LCE Clients. Click to Authorize and Assign Policy.

Normalized Logs LCE

Normalized Logs The Tenable LCE team has normalized a series of log events to support Palo Alto. Paloalto-Allow_TCP_Start Paloalto-Allow_TCP_End Paloalto-Allow_UDP_Start Paloalto-Allow_UDP_End Paloalto-Allow_ICMP_Start Paloalto-Allow_ICMP_End Paloalto-Deny_TCP Paloalto-Deny_UDP Paloalto-Deny_ICMP Paloalto-Deny_TCP Paloalto-Deny_UDP Paloalto-Deny_ICMP Paloalto-Configuration_Edit Paloalto-Configuration_Delete Paloalto-Configuration_Commit Paloalto-System_General_Msg Paloalto-Threat_Spyware Paloalto-Threat_URL Paloalto-Threat_Vulnerability Paloalto-Threat_File Paloalto-Threat_Virus Paloalto-Authentication_Failed Paloalto- Authentication_Failed_Threshold_ Reached

Sample Normalized Events

Dashboard SecurityCenter

Dashboard

Dashboard Components Palo Alto Status - Device Audit Vulnerabilities - This component displays a pass/fail indicator by check type. The Tenable_Palo_Alto_PAN-OS_Best_Practices.audit file has five check types, each focusing on a separate part of the configuration audit. Device: The firewall management and base operation settings Users: Lists local users in the device Security: Verifies the security setting of the configuration Update: Verifies the update server is configured Reports: The output from several report commands to display the report status Palo Alto Status - Netflow Summary - This component displays a summary of the top 10 TCP ports identified by Palo Alto native network collector. Palo Alto Status - Netflow By Port - This component displays the session count of the top 10 TCP ports identified by Palo Alto native network collector. Palo Alto Status - Top 10 Events - This component displays count of the top 10 Palo Alto syslog events. Palo Alto Status - Event Trend Summary - This component displays a trend line for the top 10 Palo Alto syslog events. Palo Alto Status - Event Indicator - This indicator component displays a series of Palo Alto syslog event indicators.

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