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How does Palo Alto URL filtering work?
How URL Filtering Works
- URL filtering works by checking websites users want to access against custom URL lists or categories, the dataplane, the management plane, and finally PAN-DB.
- PAN-DB—the URL Filtering cloud database—classifies websites based on site content, features, and safety.
What is Pan-DB URL filtering?
PAN-DB—the URL Filtering cloud database—classifies websites based on site content, features, and safety. In addition to the protection offered by the PAN-DB database, Advanced URL Filtering provides real-time analysis using machine language to defend against new and unknown threats.
What is URL filtering used for?
URL filtering compares the URLs that end-users attempt to access to URL categories or lists of URLs. You can use URL filtering to prevent users from accessing websites that provide content that is objectionable, potentially harmful, or not work-related.
What is data filtering Palo Alto?
Data filtering enables the firewall to detect sensitive information—such as credit card or social security numbers or internal corporate documents—and prevent this data from leaving a secure network.
How do I test my URL filter in Palo Alto?
Details. There is an option to allow users to verify/test the URL categorization used from the GUI under Objects > Security Profiles > URL Filtering Profile. This is handy to check while troubleshooting an issue or while configuring new URL’s to determine what category needs to be allowed or blocked.
How do I whitelist a URL in Palo Alto?
To create exceptions to URL category policy enforcement:
- Add the IP addresses or URLs of the sites you want to block or allow (regardless of their associated URL category) directly to a URL Filtering profile (
- Use an external dynamic list in a URL Filtering profile or as match criteria in a Security policy rule.
What are data filters?
Data filtering is the process of choosing a smaller part of your data set and using that subset for viewing or analysis. Filtering is generally (but not always) temporary – the complete data set is kept, but only part of it is used for the calculation. Exclude erroneous or “bad” observations from an analysis.
What kind of filtering does Palo Alto use?
Palo Alto Firewall. Any PAN-OS. URL Filtering. When a URL matches multiple categories, the category chosen is the one that has the most severe action defined below (block being most severe and allow least severe).
How to block a URL in Palo Alto Networks?
For example, if *.yahoo.com exists in MyAlertList and MyBlockList simultaneously) within the same URL filtering profile and www.yahoo.com is the URL, the action will be “block” and the category name will be “MyBlockList”.
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What happens when you create an URL filtering profile?
By default, site access for all URL categories is set to allow when you create a new URL Filtering profile. This means that the users will be able to browse to all sites freely and the traffic will not be logged. You can customize the URL Filtering profile with custom