App-ID

App-ID enables you to see the applications on your network and learn how they work, their behavioral characteristics, and their relative risk. Applications and application functions are identified via multiple techniques, including application signatures, decryption (if needed), protocol decoding, and heuristics.

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App-ID

App-ID enables you to see the applications on your network and learn how they work, their behavioral characteristics, and their relative risk. Applications and application functions are identified via multiple techniques, including application signatures, decryption (if needed), protocol decoding, and heuristics.

Discussions

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Argyris
12-09-2025

Prisma Browser conditional access issue with outlook app

Hello all, I'm facing an issue after trying to enable conditional access policy on Azure entra id in order to prevent the use of other browser except ... — Read more

posted in Prisma Access Discussions

106 3
MYazid
11-28-2025

How to disable firewall from contacting hawkeye.*

Hello, I notice that the firewall that we have is making very frequent contact with hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com. I would like to stop... — Read more

posted in General Topics

391 2
Star_Man
11-28-2025

Whatsapp (IOS) Traffic not recognized in PaloAlto Firewall

Hi Everyone, We are currently experiencing an issue where WhatsApp on iOS devices is unable to connect, while Android devices and laptops work witho... — Read more

posted in General Topics

424 2
dsebalj
12-08-2025

DNS req/res does not work with "transaction" scope

Hi all, I'm playing with the app-id custom signature to catch the DNS Rebinding. I have some experience with the custom app-ids and I do understand ... — Read more

posted in Custom Signatures

269 3
HungTrinh
11-22-2025

High Data Plane Utilization During Business Hours

Hello, We are experiencing an issue that is becoming hard to isolate, our end users noticed network slowness about a few days ago. During Isolatio... — Read more

posted in Next-Generation Firewall Discussions

287 1

Blogs

Supercharge Your Web Security: Announcing PA-5450 Support for Web Proxy

11-18-2025 — We're excited to announce full Web Proxy support on the high-performance PA-5450 Next-Generation Firewall with PAN-OS 12.1.2 (Orion). This allows you to consolidate your security stack, leveraging the PA-5450’s power for full SSL decryption, Advan... — Read more

Labels: Advanced Threat Prevention App-ID Data Loss Prevention DLP Next-Generation Firewall NGFW Orion PA-5450 PAN-OS 12.1.2 Security Consolidation SSL Decryption User-ID Web Proxy
622 by in Community Blogs

Managing DeepSeek Traffic with Palo Alto Networks App-IDs

03-20-2025 — In January 2025, DeepSeek gained attention for its model DeepSeek-R1, which showcased a level of proficiency that rivals the well-established OpenAI O1 but much cheaper. Palo Alto Networks customers have shown 1,800% more interest in DeepSeek sinc... — Read more

Labels: App-ID
2688 by in Community Blogs

Tips & Tricks: Disable New Applications in Scheduled Content Updates

08-22-2023 — You may have noticed the option to disable new applications in the scheduled content updates, but why would you want to enable this option? — Read more

Labels: Administration App-ID applications Applications Threats Content Update Apps Threats Content Update Content Update Release Notes NGFW Configuration Setup & Administration
6076 1 5 by in Community Blogs

Tips & Tricks: What is Applipedia?

10-14-2021 — Applipedia is the application database that Palo Alto Networks uses along with App-ID to identify applications traveling through your Palo Alto Networks firewall. — Read more

Labels: App-ID applications Firewall Guidance and Guidelines How to
28683 1 2 by in Community Blogs

Unit 42 Uncovers New Attack Surface That Targets Microsoft IIS and SQL Server

08-03-2021 — At Black Hat Asia 2021—a conference for information security experts—Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 revealed a previously undisclosed technique to execute SQL queries on the remote database in IIS and SQL server. — Read more

Labels: App-ID Threat Prevention License Unit 42 unit42 Vulnerability Vulnerability Protection
4377 by in Community Blogs

Articles

Tips & Tricks: App-ID Debugging

06-25-2025 — This article is inspired from Tips & Tricks: Flow Basic Debugging written by @kiwi and I recommend reading that article first before reading this one. Palo Alto Networks NGFWs use App-ID to detect the exact application inside a traffic stream but sometimes traffic will be first classified for ... — Read more

Labels: App-ID PAN-OS
4188 6 8 by in General Articles

Discovery & Control of Shadow IT Apps

05-13-2025 — Learn about - Shadow IT Visibility & Control- AppID Cloud Engine (ACE)- SaaS App Tenant Control- Demo — Read more

Labels: App-ID SaaS Shadow IT Visibility
776 by in Prisma Access Webinars

Convert Services to App-ID using Search and Replace

04-10-2019 — Expedition TechNote: Managing Service Objects – This document will describe how to optimize the services and services group objects. — Read more

Labels: App-ID Expedition
9145 by in Expedition Articles

Palo Alto Networks Application for QRadar

10-17-2016 — Palo Alto Networks and IBM have partnered to deliver advanced security reporting and analytics to the the widely used IBM® QRadar® SIEM. Integrate QRadar seamlessly with the Palo Alto Networks platform to streamline operations and improves security. — Read more

Labels: App-ID Integration Management Setup & Administration
50017 4 3 by in App for QRadar Articles

プラットフォームによる多層防御と次世代ファイアウォールの各機能

08-30-2016 — セキュリティプラットフォームによる多層防御のアプローチと、 次世代ファイアウォールの各機能について ご紹介致します。 — Read more

Labels: App-ID Decryption Endpoint Threat URL Filtering User-ID WildFire
20976 by in 設定、構築ガイド

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