Palo Alto Networks LIVEcommunity covers the details of new App-IDs. Learn which new App-IDs are being released in December 2019. Customers can view a complete list with details. Determine whether a new functional App-ID affects your security policy structure. Find the answers you need here in the LIVEcommunity.
New App-IDs for December 2019
Customers can review the new App-IDs and their full descriptions located in the Customer Resources: New App-IDs for December 17 Release.
We encourage Palo Alto Networks customers to understand the new applications and decide if you'd like to enable the new apps in your policy.
In this announcement:
- Find out if you will get visibility and control for an application that is heavily used in your environment.
- Determine whether a new functional App-ID for an existing application affects your security policy structure.
- We are adding popular application gaming application apex-legends.
- We are adding functional apps for ms-teams
- We are releasing the App-ID for Cortex-XDR that will help customers safely enable the web traffic for managing cortex XDR.
New App-IDs
Name |
Description |
Previously Identified As |
apex-legends |
Apex Legends is a free-to-play Battle Royale game where legendary competitors battle for glory, fame, and fortune on the fringes of the Frontier. |
unknown-udp, web-browsing |
azure-govt-cloud-blob |
Azure Government is a separate instance of the Microsoft Azure service. Microsoft Azure Government delivers a cloud platform built upon the foundational principles of security, privacy and control, compliance, and transparency. This application identifies the Blob storage platform of Microsoft Azure Government. |
azure-govt-cloud-storage |
azure-govt-cloud-file |
Azure Government is a separate instance of the Microsoft Azure service. Microsoft Azure Government delivers a cloud platform built upon the foundational principles of security, privacy and control, compliance, and transparency. This application identifies the Cloud file storage platform of Microsoft Azure Government. |
azure-govt-cloud-storage |
azure-govt-cloud-table |
Azure Government is a separate instance of the Microsoft Azure service. Microsoft Azure Government delivers a cloud platform built upon the foundational principles of security, privacy and control, compliance, and transparency. This application identifies the Table storage platform of Microsoft Azure Government. |
azure-govt-cloud-storage |
cortex-xdr |
Cortex XDR is the detection and response app that natively integrates network, endpoint and cloud data to stop sophisticated attacks. Cortex XDR accurately detects threats with behavioral analytics and reveals the root cause to speed up investigations. This App-ID covers web-traffic for the cortex xdr. |
ssl, web-browsing |
ether-s-i-o |
The Ether-S-I/O protocol is used for data transfer between PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller) and remote input/output devices (RIOs) manufactured by Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd. A "Smart remote input/output station (Smart RIO)" features physical inputs and outputs and contains a CPU on which a small application can be run. The inputs from these RIO stations can be read and written by the master station (a PLC) using the Ether-S-I/O protocol. |
unknown-udp |
kaltura-base |
Kaltura MediaSpace Video Portal is a market-leading video solution that offers an incredibly flexible environment so you can unify videos from your entire institution, under your branding, with your workflows, and displaying only your content. This app-id covers traffic for kaltura-products. |
ssl, web-browsing |
kaltura-mediaspace-downloading (functional) |
Kaltura MediaSpace offers a single platform that can be customized to meet the video needs of every department across your institution. This application identifies the downloading activity of kaltura mediaspace. |
web-browsing |
kaltura-mediaspace-posting (functional) |
Kaltura MediaSpace offers a single platform that can be customized to meet the video needs of every department across your institution. This application identifies the posting and editing activity of kaltura mediaspace. |
web-browsing |
kaltura-mediaspace-sharing (functional) |
Kaltura MediaSpace offers a single platform that can be customized to meet the video needs of every department across your institution. This application identifies the sharing activity of kaltura mediaspace. |
web-browsing |
kaltura-mediaspace-uploading (functional) |
Kaltura MediaSpace offers a single platform that can be customized to meet the video needs of every department across your institution. This application identifies the uploading activity of kaltura mediaspace. |
web-browsing |
ms-teams-audio-video (functional) |
Microsoft Teams is a platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes, and attachments. This App-ID identifies the traffic of audio/video connections within Microsoft Teams, including one-on-one audio/video chats, and audio/video meetings in channel. |
ms-teams, skype, stun |
rtps |
The Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) Wire Protocol is a protocol for best effort and reliable publish-subscribe communications over unreliable transports such as UDP in both unicast and multicast. RTPS has been standardized by the OMG (Object Management Group) as the interoperability protocol for Data Distribution Service (DDS) implementations, an standard widely used in the aerospace and defense sectors for real-time applications. It provides two main communication models: the publish-subscribe protocol, which transfers data from publishers to subscribers; and the Composite State Transfer (CST) protocol, which transfers state. |
unknown-udp |
session-announcement-protocol |
Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) is a protocol for broadcasting multicast session information. SAP was published by the IETF as RFC 2974. This App-ID covers SAP Version 1. |
unknown-udp, unkown-tcp |