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Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Automation Engineer
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Exam Specification: PCSAE (Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Automation Engineer)
Exam Name: PCSAE (Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Automation Engineer)
Exam Code: PCSAE
Exam Duration: 80 minutes
Passing Score: Not specified
Exam Format: Multiple-choice
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Security Automation
- Understanding the role of security automation in modern cybersecurity
- Overview of automation frameworks and technologies
- Benefits and challenges of implementing security automation
2. Security Automation Fundamentals
- Key concepts and principles of security automation
- Common automation tools and platforms
- Automation workflows and scripting languages
3. Palo Alto Networks Security Automation Features
- Overview of Palo Alto Networks security products and features
- Automation capabilities within Palo Alto Networks platform
- Integration of Palo Alto Networks products with third-party automation tools
4. Security Orchestration and Response (SOAR)
- Understanding the role of SOAR in security automation
- SOAR platforms and their capabilities
- Integration of Palo Alto Networks products with SOAR platforms
5. Security Automation Use Cases
- Automation of firewall rule management
- Automated threat detection and response
- Security policy compliance automation
6. Security Automation Best Practices
- Designing effective security automation workflows
- Ensuring security and reliability in automated processes
- Monitoring and managing automated security operations
Exam Objectives:
1. Understand the fundamentals of security automation and its role in modern cybersecurity.
2. Familiarize with common automation tools, platforms, and scripting languages.
3. Gain knowledge of Palo Alto Networks security automation features and capabilities.
4. Learn about security orchestration and response (SOAR) and its integration with Palo Alto Networks products.
5. Explore various security automation use cases, such as firewall rule management and threat detection/response.
6. Acquire best practices for designing and managing secure and reliable security automation workflows.
Exam Syllabus:
Section 1: Introduction to Security Automation (10%)
- Role and importance of security automation in modern cybersecurity
- Overview of automation frameworks and technologies
- Benefits and challenges of implementing security automation
Section 2: Security Automation Fundamentals (20%)
- Key concepts and principles of security automation
- Common automation tools and platforms
- Automation workflows and scripting languages
Section 3: Palo Alto Networks Security Automation Features (20%)
- Overview of Palo Alto Networks security products and features
- Automation capabilities within Palo Alto Networks platform
- Integration of Palo Alto Networks products with third-party automation tools
Section 4: Security Orchestration and Response (SOAR) (15%)
- Role and capabilities of SOAR in security automation
- SOAR platforms and their functionalities
- Integration of Palo Alto Networks products with SOAR platforms
Section 5: Security Automation Use Cases (20%)
- Automation of firewall rule management
- Automated threat detection and response
- Security policy compliance automation
Section 6: Security Automation Best Practices (15%)
- Designing effective security automation workflows
- Ensuring security and reliability in automated processes
- Monitoring and managing automated security operations
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- Reference and manipulate context data to manage automation workflow
- Summarize inputs, outputs, and results for playbook tasks
- Configure inputs and outputs for subplaybook tasks
- Enable and configure looping on a subplaybook
- Differentiate among playbook task types
- Manual
- Automated
- Conditional
- Data collection
- Subplaybook
- Apply filters and transformers to manipulate data
- Apply the playbook debugger to aid in developing playbooks
- Configure incident types
- Identify the role of an incident type within the incident lifecycle
- Configure an incident layout
- Fields and buttons
- Tabs
- New/Edit and Close Forms
- Summarize the function, capabilities, and purpose of incident fields
- Configure classifiers and mappers
- Define the capabilities of automation across XSOAR functions
- Playbook tasks
- War room
- Layouts (dynamic sections, buttons)
- Jobs
- Field trigger scripts
- Pre/post-processing
- Differentiate between automations, commands, and scripts
- Interpret and modify automation scripts
- Script helper
- Script settings
- Language types
- Script text
- Identify the properties and capabilities of the XSOAR framework for integration
- Configure and manage integration instances
- Apply marketplace concepts for the management of content
- Searching in marketplace
- Installation and updates
- Dependencies
- Version history
- Partner supported versus XSOAR supported
- Submitting content to the marketplace
- Apply general content customization and management concepts
- Custom versus system content
- Duplicating content
- Importing/exporting custom content
- Version control
- Manage local changes in a remote repository (dev-prod) configuration
- Describe the components of the XSOAR system architecture
- System hardware requirements
- Remote repositories (dev-prod)
- Engines
- Multitenancy
- Elasticsearch/HA
- Docker
- Describe the incident lifecycle within XSOAR
- Define the capabilities of RBAC
- Page access
- Integration permissions
- Incident tabs (layout specification)
- Automation permissions
- Incident viewing permissions by role
- Identify the troubleshooting tools available to obtain more diagnostic information
- Log bundles
- Integration testing
- Identify options available for performance tuning
- Ignore output
- Quiet mode
- Monitor system health using the System Diagnostics page
- Identify methods for querying data
- Indicators
- Incidents
- Dashboards
- Global search
- Summarize the workflow elements used during an investigation
- Layouts
- War Room
- Work Plan
- Evidence Board
- Actions menu
- Interact with layouts for incident management
- Sections
- Fields
- Buttons
- Summarize tools used for managing incidents
- Bulk incident actions
- Table view versus summary view
- Table settings
- Identify the capabilities of existing dashboards and reports
- Summarize what information can be created, edited, or shared within dashboards and reports
- Summarize the capabilities of widget builder
- Identify the parameters available for configuring indicator Objects
- Layouts and types
- Fields
- Reputation scripts and commands
- Expiration
- Generate threat intel reports
- Describe the features of the Threat Intel page
- Unit 42 intel feature
- XSOAR indicators
- Export/import capabilities
- Configure threat intel feed integrations
- Identify the options available to auto extract
- Exclusion list
- Playbook auto extract
- Regex for auto extract
- System defaults
- Extraction settings for incident types