Speed Test through Palo Alto pair

Hello group,

We are in the process to set up and replace the current firewall with PA-4020 pairs . During pre-test, one thing came up. Using several Speed Test sites, the results are not what we expected, particularly the UPLOAD speeds are far off .

It

Proxy block

Hi,

we have some clever students...

they have found if they get a proxy address (prior to joining our network) and add it into their firefox they are getting out on the internet and from what they say bypassing the Palo URL check.

Is there a way I can l

Exporting translations for an IPAM system

I've been working on automated scripts to export my firewall configurations, gather the NAT translations and reformat the exported data into the XML format used by my IPAM system.

I've managed to automate this on our Check Points by parsing the object

HTTP and sql injection by facebook-mail

Hi all,

We recently found a threat "HTTP SQL Injection Attempt" (ID = 30514) with the application "facebook-mail".

We found that information quite strange. What does it mean exactly?

Was there some patterns (for example a SQL specific pattern) in the ma

Data filter - Blocking suspicious downloads

For data filtering we set a rule to alert for certain downloads (such as .bat, .exe, etc).  In the monitor log, all alerts are listed as LOW severity.  I have noticed a pattern where a workstation shows a suspicious download such as game.exe or abyz

GRE and IPSec traffic

Hello,

Does PanOS 3.1.4 in L3 mode supports GRE and IPSec protocols? We need to NAT this traffic.

Br!

Ahti Akel

Coverage for New IPS Evasion Techniques

Stonesoft recently reported multiple IPS evasion techniques that can be used to evade detection by IPS/IDS devices. We will be releasing signatures to detect most of the evasions in our content release tomorrow. More details will be posted on this th

Adobe zero-day vulnerability security advisory

PA-500 - Auto reboot byitself

Hi Again,

The appliance is auto reboot after running for some time without any rebooting or shutdown. After performing some checking, the system log file shows that "captive_portal: restarts exhausted, rebooting system".

Yes, i did some minor changes o