Upcoming Events
CITE 2025
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Troubleshooting
Location:
Ballroom A9
Date:
Thursday, November 20th 2025
Time:
1:00pm - 1:45pm PST
Dive into practical, real-world techniques for diagnosing and resolving common issues in Palo Alto Networks environments. This session covers how to uncover silent drops, interpret traffic and threat logs, use packet captures effectively, and apply key CLI tools for troubleshooting authentication, routing, VPN, and HA failover problems. Learn actionable tips and tricks to keep your deployments running smoothly and efficiently.
Product Showcase: Falco
Location:
Meeting Room 1 & 2
Date:
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Time:
9:30am - 9:50am PST
Managing a Palo Alto Networks firewall in an education environment is no small task. Over time, configuration drift, exceptions, and staff changes can quietly weaken even the best security posture. In this 20-minute product showcase, learn how Falco, Digital Scepter’s automated firewall auditing platform, helps schools, districts, and higher-ed institutions stay ahead of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and regressions—without adding to your team’s workload.
See a live demo of Falco’s weekly firewall health report, discover easy wins for improving security posture, and walk away with access to a free Falco firewall scorecard for your organization.
The Definitive Guide to Zero Trust
Location:
Meeting Room 10
Date:
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Time:
8:00am - 8:45am PST
Zero Trust isn’t a new security philosophy—it’s the modern enforcement of principles IT has always relied on: authentication, authorization, and least privilege. In this session, we’ll trace how those fundamentals evolved from traditional network zones and VPNs to today’s identity-driven, cloud-enforced models. Using real K-12 examples, we’ll explore how Google’s BeyondCorp and the NIST framework influence practical campus network designs, from segmented firewalls and 802.1X authentication to cloud-delivered Zero Trust solutions like Cloudflare Access and enterprise browsers. You’ll learn how to blend on-prem NGFWs with SaaS access control, map user roles (students, staff, faculty, parents) to the right access tiers, and prepare your network for a hybrid future.
Past Events
Palo Alto Networks Zero-Trust Best Practices at Clovis Unified School District
Location:
Clovis Unified School District,
1670 David E Cook Way,
Clovis, CA 93611
Date:
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Time:
10:00am - 2:00pm PDT
Join Digital Scepter and Clovis USD for a deep-dive into the latest features of Palo Alto Networks NGFW. We’ll demonstrate best practices that you can use to immediately improve your security posture and get more from your firewalls.
Agenda:
- How to set up Palo Alto Networks’s advanced security subscriptions.
- What’s new in PAN-OS 11
- Zero Trust Roadmap
- Details on setting up Inbound SSL decryption and Forward Proxy SSL Decryption
- Other best practices you can implement right away
Palo Alto Networks Zero-Trust Best Practices at Citrus College
Location:
Citrus College,
1000 W Foothill Blvd,
Room IS 107,
Glendora, CA, 91741
Date:
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Time:
10:00am - 2:00pm PDT
Join Digital Scepter and Citrus College for a deep-dive into the latest features of Palo Alto Networks NGFW. We’ll demonstrate best practices that you can use to immediately improve your security posture and get more from your firewalls.
Agenda:
- How to set up Palo Alto Networks’s advanced security subscriptions.
- What’s new in PAN-OS 11
- Zero Trust Roadmap
- Details on setting up Inbound SSL decryption and Forward Proxy SSL Decryption
- Other best practices you can implement right away
CITE 2024 Presentations
Decryption Blueprint: Building a Two-Tier CA for SSL Inspection (PDF)
With these slides, you will learn how to build and deploy a secure, scalable two-tier Certificate Authority (CA) infrastructure. You’ll explore the configuration of both root and subordinate CAs, manage certificate lifecycles, and implement best practices for securing your PKI environment. Additionally, you’ll delve into SSL/TLS decryption using Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, gaining the skills to secure encrypted traffic and enhance network visibility. The course will guide you through integrating your CA with a Palo Alto firewall to enable SSL decryption, configuring decryption policies, and troubleshooting common issues. By the end, you will have the expertise to deploy a robust CA environment and ensure SSL decryption for secure network communications.
Key Learning Objectives: • Understand Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) concepts and two-tier CA architecture • Build and configure a Root and Subordinate Certificate Authority • Manage certificates, revocations, and certificate enrollment • Enable SSL decryption on Palo Alto Networks Firewalls using custom certificates • Configure decryption policies and best practices to secure encrypted traffic
Implementing Zero Trust Security Architecture (PDF)
In an era where traditional security models are no longer sufficient to protect against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, the Zero-Trust security framework has emerged as a pivotal approach to safeguarding digital assets. This presentation will delve into how Palo Alto Networks enables and enhances Zero-Trust security through its comprehensive suite of solutions. We will start by exploring the core principles of the Zero-Trust model, which asserts that no user, device, or network segment should be trusted by default, regardless of their location. The principle of “never trust, always verify” will be examined in detail, including its impact on organizational security posture. The presentation will then transition into the specific features and capabilities offered by Palo Alto Networks to support a Zero-Trust architecture. Key topics will include:
- Identity and Access Management: Leveraging Palo Alto Networks’ capabilities to enforce strict authentication and authorization policies.
- Network Segmentation and Micro-Segmentation: Implementing granular controls to segment and protect network traffic within and across organizational boundaries.
- Continuous Monitoring and Threat Detection: Utilizing Palo Alto Networks’ advanced threat detection and response tools to maintain visibility and control over network activity.
- Integration and Automation: How to integrate Zero-Trust principles with existing security infrastructure and automate enforcement to streamline operations and enhance security posture. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to design, configure, and deploy Zero-Trust security using Palo Alto Networks’ tools, ensuring robust protection against internal and external threats. We will also provide practical examples and best practices for effective implementation, along with a Q&A session to address specific queries and challenges faced by organizations in their Zero-Trust journey.
Palo Alto Networks Zero-Trust Best Practices at Tahoe Truckee Unified School District
Location:
Tahoe Truckee Unified School District
11603 Donner Pass Rd
Truckee, CA 96161, USA
Date:
Wednesday May 1st, 2024
Time:
10:00am - 2:00pm PDT
Join Digital Scepter for a deep-dive into the latest features of Palo Alto Networks NGFW. We’ll demonstrate best practices that you can use to immediately improve your security posture and get more from your firewalls.
Agenda:
- What is new about the Advanced security subscriptions?
- How to set up Palo Alto Networks’s advanced security subscriptions.
- What’s new in PAN-OS 11?
- Zero Trust Roadmap
- Details on setting up Inbound SSL decryption and Forward Proxy SSL Decryption
- Other best practices you can implement right away
Palo Alto Networks Zero-Trust Best Practices at Sacramento County Office of Education
Location:
Sacramento County Office of Education
10474 Mather Blvd.
Mather CA 95655
Date:
Wednesday April 17th, 2024
Time:
9:00am - 1:00pm PDT
Join Digital Scepter for a deep-dive into the latest features of Palo Alto Networks NGFW. We’ll demonstrate best practices that you can use to immediately improve your security posture and get more from your firewalls.
Agenda:
- What is new about the Advanced security subscriptions?
- How to set up Palo Alto Networks’s advanced security subscriptions.
- What’s new in PAN-OS 11?
- Zero Trust Roadmap
- Details on setting up Inbound SSL decryption and Forward Proxy SSL Decryption
- Other best practices you can implement right away
Palo Alto Networks Zero-Trust Best Practices at San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
Location:
San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
West End Educational Service Center
8265 Aspen Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
Date:
Wednesday February 14th, 2024
Time:
10:00am - 2:00pm PDT
Join Digital Scepter for a deep-dive into the latest features of Palo Alto Networks NGFW. We’ll demonstrate best practices that you can use to immediately improve your security posture and get more from your firewalls.
Agenda:
- What is new about the Advanced security subscriptions?
- How to set up Palo Alto Networks’s advanced security subscriptions.
- What’s new in PAN-OS 11?
- Zero Trust Roadmap
- Details on setting up Inbound SSL decryption and Forward Proxy SSL Decryption
- Other best practices you can implement right away
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