topic Is it possible to group countries? in General Topics

Is it possible to group countries?

hkp — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:46:52 GMT

I want to be able to use a set of countries for some specific rules. Is there any way to create a group with countries?

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

kprakash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:58:36 GMT

We dont have a feature of creating a group of countries and adding this group to a security policy. The closest that we can come to is to create a region, and include a bigger range of latitudes and longitudes, so that it covers as much countries as possible, and use this region under the policy. Otherwise you have to add the countries individually.

BR,

Karthik RP

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

kprakash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:14:35 GMT

Or what you can do is select the countries you want to allow and then check on the negate box. What this will do is all the countries in the list will not be blocked, and the rest will be.

BR,

Karthik

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

hkp — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:51:24 GMT

Thanks for the response.

Do you know if a feature like this in being worked on?

-Heath

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

mbutt — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 23:59:51 GMT

Following feature request has been filed on this

FR ID: 1284.Multiple Countries in a Single Object

You can request your local SE so he can also add you to this list.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Numan

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

LunaviSteve — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 15:39:32 GMT

It is now 2021 and this is still not a feature on Palo Alto. I think it would be helpful for administration of the firewall security policy to be able to group countries in a single object so that it can be easily used in multiple rules.

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

anon4all — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 05:58:37 GMT

i agree that this feature is far too long in the waiting. fortinet can do it. im doing it now!

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

John.Gamrat — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:46:46 GMT

Agreed at the very least we can use groups for continents. I think it's reasonable not to either have a NEQ rule denying all countries other than specified or to manually add 250+ countries.

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

miguelMA — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:54:46 GMT

When is the feature coming?

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

joel.p — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:20:04 GMT

Also looking for this feature

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

StephenMcMahon — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:37:27 GMT

hello from 2024 -- would still be a nice feature 11 years onward

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

danielbrelurut — Tue, 28 May 2024 09:42:43 GMT

we are still waiting fo this feature the eu region doesnt work so i have to add all europe countries ...11 years

Re: Is it possible to group countries?

ifstciss — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:59:01 GMT

Yep, still waiting as well... should be possible to group regions/countries nowadays..

Just tell your A.I. to implement it 😉