General Articles
LIVEcommunity's General Articles area is home to how-to resources, technical documentation, and discussions with Accepted Solutions that turn into articles related to all Palo Alto Networks products.
cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Announcements
Please sign in to see details of an important advisory in our Customer Advisories area.
About General Articles
LIVEcommunity's General Articles area is home to how-to resources, technical documentation, and discussions with Accepted Solutions that turn into articles related to all Palo Alto Networks products.
This Nominated Discussion Article is based on the post "Security Profile Question". Read on to see the discussion and solution!
View full article
This article is based on a discussion,URL set to allow Ransomware, posted by @Schneur_Feldman and answered by @Astardzhiev, @BPry and @Adrian_Jensen. Read on to see the discussion and solution!   Can anyone please explain why Palo Alto Networks would release a Ransomware URL Category and put the default to allow?    It's going to be a pain logging into every single client of ours that uses Palo and changing Ransomware URL Category to block. Is there a way to automate it? What would the CLI command be? Palo Alto Networks doesn't have visibility into how, why and where you are using your URL filtering profiles. They give you the tools, it is your decision how to use them.   The CLI command would be: - Locally managed firewall   set profiles url-filtering <profile-name> block ransomware   - Panorama managed firewall   set device-group <device-group-name> profiles url-filtering <profile-name> block ransomware   There are couple of ways to automate such change and depending on your environment: - Export firewall running config; search and edit the XML defining any URL filtering profile; import, load and commit the edited config - Similar as above but for Panorama config, modifying any URL filtering in all available device-groups From your comment it seems you support multiple different clients, which probably require different ways to connect and different credentials. So you are probably better using the XML API. You may want to check python framework, which could save you some time (connecting and authenticating to the device).   To further expand on this, Palo Alto Networks can't identify what you're using a profile for. If I have devices segmented off into a malware research zone and utilize a subset of my machines for those purposes, I absolutely wouldn't want Palo Alto Networks to modify my profiles to block a newly introduced category for a subset of machines where I would actually want to allow the traffic.    If you're managing multiple clients I'd really recommend looking at the benefits of utilizing Panorama to manage all of them, or better yet managing them directly through the XML configuration file and templating some of the configuration yourself if you can't get approved to purchase Panorama. The API here can also be a major help, but if you're not comfortable with it it's not going to be a quick fix since you'll need to be parsing results and using that information in additional changes.    NOTE: The new "ransomware" category is blocked in the "default" URL Filtering category. But as you pointed out correctly it is not blocked by default in custom URL Filtering categories because Palo Alto Networks doesn't know what you are using custom categories for.   Default URL Filtering Profile   Custom URL Filtering Profile    
View full article
  • 182 Posts
  • 257 Subscriptions
Customer Advisories

Your security posture is important to us. If you’re a Palo Alto Networks customer, be sure to login to see the latest critical announcements and updates in our Customer Advisories area.

Learn how to subscribe to and receive email notifications here.

Listen to PANCast

PANCast is a Palo Alto Networks podcast that provides actionable insights to customers, helping you maximize your investment while improving your cybersecurity posture.

Labels
Top Contributors
Top Liked Posts in LIVEcommunity Article
Top Liked Authors