Access Your Data Center Using Explicit Proxy
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Access Your Data Center Using Explicit Proxy

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Access Your Data Center Using Explicit Proxy

This is how you use Explicit Proxy to access resources in your data center.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
  • Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama)
  • Prisma Access
    5.1 Preferred
  • (For private and partner app access)
    GlobalProtect app
    version 6.2 for Windows or macOS
You can use service connections to access resources in your data center, such as external dynamic lists or private and partner apps, while still benefiting from an Explicit Proxy connection.
Make sure the private apps are not set as DIRECT in the PAC file.

Access Your Data Center Using Explicit Proxy (
Strata Cloud Manager
)

This is how you access your data center using
Prisma Access
Explicit Proxy in
Strata Cloud Manager
.
  1. Ensure that the
    DESTINATION
    Zones
    for internet-bound traffic is set to
    untrust
    instead of
    any
    .
    Failure to perform this step could result in unintended access to your data center.
    1. Select
      Manage
      Configuration
      NGFW and Prisma Access
      Configuration Scope
      Folders
      Prisma Access
      Mobile Users Container
      Explicit Proxy
      Security Services
      Security Policy
      .
    2. Open a rule for internet-bound traffic.
    3. Ensure
      Zones
      under
      DESTINATION
      is set to
      untrust
      .
    4. Repeat for all of your internet-bound traffic rules.
  2. Enable private application access.
    1. Select
      Workflows
      Prisma Access Setup
      Explicit Proxy
      Infrastructure Settings
      Enable Private App Access for Explicit Proxy
      .
  3. Create security policy rules for the data center resources you want to access.
    1. Select
      Manage
      Configuration
      NGFW and Prisma Access
      Configuration Scope
      Folders
      Prisma Access
      Mobile Users Container
      Explicit Proxy
      Security Services
      Security Policy
      .
    In rules for data center access, ensure
    Zones
    under
    DESTINATION
    is set to
    trust
    .

Access Your Data Center Using Explicit Proxy (
Panorama
)

Access resources hosted in your data center using
Prisma Access
Explicit Proxy.
  1. Configure zone mappings.
    1. Select
      Panorama
      Cloud Services
      Configuration
      Mobile Users - Explicit Proxy
      Zone Mapping
    2. Add the zones that you will use to access your data center resources to
      Trusted Zones
      .
  2. Ensure that the
    Destination ZONE
    in policy rules for internet-bound traffic is set to an untrust zone instead of
    any
    .
    Failure to perform this step could result in unintended access to your data center.
    1. Select
      Policies
      .
    2. Set the
      Device Group
      to
      Explicit_Proxy_Device_Group
      .
    3. Change the
      Destination ZONE
      from
      any
      to one of the untrust zones you configured in an earlier step.
  3. Enable private application access.
    1. Select
      Panorama
      Cloud Services
      Configuration
      Mobile Users - Explicit Proxy
      Settings
      Advanced
      Enable Private Application Access
  4. Create security policy rules for the data center resources you want to access.
    1. Select
      Policies
      .
    2. Set the
      Device Group
      to
      Explicit_Proxy_Device_Group
      .
    3. In rules for data center access, ensure that you use the
      Trusted
      zones you configured in an earlier step.

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