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Add a Certificate to Cloud NGFW for AWS

Learn how to add a certificate to the Cloud NGFW for AWS.

Cloud NGFW uses certificates to access an intelligent feed and to enable inbound and outbound decryption. These certificates are stored in the AWS Secrets Manager.

There are three type of certificates used in a typical deployment.

Intermediate CA Certificate (CA Certificate)
—A Certificate Authority (CA) is a trusted organization that issues SSL certificates. These digital certificates are files used to link an entity to a public key. Web browsers use these certificates to authenticate content sent from web servers. Web browsers normally come with lists of CAs that they implicitly trust to identify hosts. The purpose of CA is to verify the authenticity of the website, domain, or organizations.

Server Certificate
—A certificate associated with a specific domain name. If a website has a valid certificate, it means that a certificate authority has taken steps to verify that the web address actually belongs to that organization. When you type a URL your browser checks the certificate to make sure that the website address matches the address on the certificate. It also makes sure the certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority.

You may occasionally connect to a server with an untrusted certificate. Cloud NGFW for AWS will drop the connection as if the server terminated the connection.

Root CA Certificate
—A certificate authority can issue multiple certificates in the form of a tree structure. A root certificate is the top-most certificate of the tree.

When adding certificate to the AWS Secrets Manager for use with Cloud NGFW, the following prerequisites must be met.

Certificate added as a key/value pair, with two keys—

private-key

and

public-key

. For the private key, the value should be the actual key and, for the public-key, the value should be the actual certificate body.

A tag with the key

PaloAltoCloudNGFW

and value of

true

You must import the Root CA certificate and Intermediate CA certificate(s) to trust store of the client.

If you are using end-entity certificates for decrypting traffic, only the end-entity certificates (both private and public keys) must be stored in the AWS Secrets Manager.

PKCS8 private key format is supported. PKCS1 private key format is not supported.

Supported PKCS format:

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

Unsupported PKCS1 format:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Complete the following procedure to add a certificate for use with Cloud NGFW for AWS.

Add your certificate to the AWS Secrets Manager.

Store a new secret

Select

Other type of secret

Under

Key/value pairs

, create a key called

private-key

and another called

public-key

Paste your entire private key and entire public key in the corresponding field.

Click

Enter a descriptive

Secret Name

Add a tag with the Key

PaloAltoCloudNGFW

and Value

true

Click

again, and

Store

to finishing adding your certificate.

Select

Rulestacks

and select a previously-created rulestack on which to configure a certificate.

Select

Objects

Certificate List

Add Certificate

Enter a descriptive

Name

for your certificate.

(optional) Enter a description for your certificate.

Select certificate.

Enter the

Certificate ARN

if you want Cloud NGFW to download the certificate from AWS Secrets Manager.

Check

Self Signed Certificate

if you want Cloud NGFW to create a self-signed certificate.

Click

Save

Configure an Intelligent Feed on Cloud NGFW for AWS

Create Security Rules on Cloud NGFW for AWS

Cloud NGFW for AWS

Add a Certificate to Cloud NGFW for AWS

Add a Certificate to Cloud NGFW for AWS

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