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Threat Prevention Services

Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention Services leverage the visibility of our next-generation firewall to inspect all traffic, automatically preventing known threats, regardless of port, protocol or SSL encryption, confronting threats at each phase of the attack. This page provides resources about threat prevention security services to help keep your network secure. Ask your questions or provide insightful answers in the discussion forum specific to Threat Prevention.

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03-17-2024

What's the difference between antivirus signatures and WildFire signatures

Hi, I'm trying to understand the difference between the antivirus signatures and WildFire signatures. To my understanding, antivirus signatures identi... — Read more

posted in Threat & Vulnerability Discussions

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03-06-2024

About Virus/Win32.WGeneric.eevxic

The following detections have been occurring for the past few days.I would like to know information about this threat.I have run a virus scan on my de... — Read more

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03-04-2024

Increase in TCP SYN w/Data activity - Feb. 27

I'm seeing a significant increase in TCP SYN activity mainly from APAC region, all of which started around February 27th. Anyone else seeing the same... — Read more

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03-03-2024

cytray.exe "bad image" errors following Agent update

Following the Cortex XDR Windows agent update to 8.3.0.49434 we started to see the following error affecting some application DLLs. Clicking Ok makes ... — Read more

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02-19-2024

Cortex XDR - Coyote Trojan

Hi, Does anyone know that Cortex XDR can detect and prevent Coyote Trojan as described by Kaspersky? https://securelist.com/coyote-multi-stage-banking... — Read more

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Blogs

Always Innovating in NetSec Series: User Experience, Threat Coverage and Management

01-09-2024 — In this edition, we have exciting announcements around innovations in AI Operations (AIOps) & Management, Advanced WildFire (Malware Analysis and Prevention) and Software Firewalls. This wide range of innovations cover areas of improving user expe... — Read more

Labels: Advanced Wildfire AIOps Always Innovating Next-Generation Firewalls NGFW Panorama threat prevention WildFire
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Cobalt Strike Attack Detection & Defense Technology Overview

03-09-2023 — Learn about a range of detection techniques for stopping Cobalt Strike attacks, including signature-based, machine learning, and dynamic heuristics detection engines. Cobalt Strike Attack Detection & Defense Technology Overview — Read more

Labels: Cobalt Strike Next-Generation Firewalls NGFW Threat threat prevention Unit 42
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Using Cortex XSOAR to Deal With MSHTML Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444)

09-14-2021 — Using Cortex XSOAR to Deal With MSHTML Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) Use this Cortex XSOAR playbook to protect against Microsoft's MSHTML Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444). — Read more

Labels: Cortex XSOAR threat prevention
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New Features Introduced in Prisma Access 2.2

09-02-2021 — Learn about the new, powerful features and capabilities offered by Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Access version 2.2. — Read more

Labels: cloud managed prisma access New Features Prisma Access threat prevention
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New Industry Report Shows Palo Alto Networks NGFWs Outperforms Competitor

09-01-2021 — A recent report proves that the recently launched PA-400 series ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls outperform other similar products on the market. — Read more

Labels: NGFW threat prevention
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Articles

PANCast™ Episode 32: Detecting Brute Force Attacks with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls

12-07-2023 — Detecting and blocking Brute Force attacks with Palo Alto Networks Firewall. — Read more

Labels: NGFW PANCast threat prevention
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PANCast Episode 25: Phishing Emails and Relevant Threat Prevention Features in PAN-OS

08-30-2023 — In this episode, we are discussing about Phishing, and the relevant Threat Prevention features in PAN-OS protecting against Phishing attacks. — Read more

Labels: NGFW threat prevention WildFire
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PANCast Episode 20: Threat Logs - AV

06-21-2023 — Welcome to another episode of PANCast. In episode 5 we discussed why logs are your best friend, the troubleshooting approach and the importance when it comes to debugging firewall issues. Today we look at threat logs and we have a guest, Faiz Azmi... — Read more

Labels: Content-ID PANCast threat prevention WildFire
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Advanced Threat Prevention with Prisma Access

04-17-2023 — Signature based protections and profiles, Wildfire, URL Filtering, DNS Security — Read more

Labels: Advanced Threat Protection Advanced URL Filtering DNS Security Prisma Access WildFire
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Advanced Wildfire as an ICAP Alternative

02-21-2023 — Real-time retrieval of WildFire signatures, WildFire Inline ML and Advanced Wildfire that are available for Palo Alto NGFW and Prisma Access SASE. — Read more

Labels: antivirus Cyberelite Next-Generation Firewall. NGFW PAN-OS Prisma Access WildFire
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