Did you know that PAN-DB, the Palo Alto Networks URL database, can assign multiple categories to URLs that classify a website’s content, purpose, and safety. Every URL can have up to four categories, including a security-focused URL category that indicates how likely it is that the site will expose you to threats.
These security-focused URL categories enable you to implement simple security and decryption policies based on website safety, without requiring you to research and individually assess the sites that are likely to expose you to web-based threats.
These security-focused URL categories (or risk categories for short) are High-Risk, Medium-Risk, Low-Risk, and Newly-Registered Domains.
NOTE: These risk categories are always assigned at the domain-level (the risk category for an individual URL is inherited from the domain).
As an example, PAN-DB might classify a certain website as:
Check out the following links for more information on Multi-Category URL filtering and some best practices to help you along the way!
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