https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/advanced-threat-prevention/understanding-security-profiles/m-p/223128#M365 <P>Hello,</P><P>The PAN does parrallel processing of packets so it does quite a few things at once to keep things moving quickly. Check out this article and see if helps out:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/Packet-Flow-Sequence-in-PAN-OS/ta-p/56081" target="_blank">https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/Packet-Flow-Sequence-in-PAN-OS/ta-p/56081</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Cheers!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:32:47 GMT OtakarKlier 2018-07-20T17:32:47Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/advanced-threat-prevention/understanding-security-profiles/m-p/221737#M362 <P>&nbsp;</P><P>PA newbie here!&nbsp; I am&nbsp;digging in to the PA&nbsp;traffic processing algorithm &amp; on the 4th leg of the process I see that the traffic is allowed at this point but gets scanned against the configured security profile.&nbsp; This sounds like where IPS comes into the picture am I correct?&nbsp; I read the PAN-OS 8.0 Admin Guide and I don't see anything that mentions IPS but maybe its just not using the term in the guide.&nbsp; Is it safe to assume that IPS comes into play at this point in the process?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="PA-v.PNG" style="width: 734px;"><img src="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/15875iEEF2B43FD060938E/image-size/large/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="PA-v.PNG" alt="PA-v.PNG" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:03:39 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/advanced-threat-prevention/understanding-security-profiles/m-p/221737#M362 MarioMarquez 2018-07-11T15:03:39Z https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/advanced-threat-prevention/understanding-security-profiles/m-p/223128#M365 <P>Hello,</P><P>The PAN does parrallel processing of packets so it does quite a few things at once to keep things moving quickly. Check out this article and see if helps out:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/Packet-Flow-Sequence-in-PAN-OS/ta-p/56081" target="_blank">https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/Packet-Flow-Sequence-in-PAN-OS/ta-p/56081</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Cheers!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:32:47 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/advanced-threat-prevention/understanding-security-profiles/m-p/223128#M365 OtakarKlier 2018-07-20T17:32:47Z