Having multiple layer of defense in depth is a great idea. Top firewall vendor always has mixture of different security profiles which helps against malware infection. Palo Alto also has different flavors of protection from Anti Virus to DOS attack prevention. The main advantage of Palo Alto in compared to other firewall is making use of SP3 also know as Single Pass Parallel Processing Architecture. SP3 provides parallel processing which significantly reduces latency and overhead. We will talk about SP3 in some other blog. Let me know briefly describe about some of the security profiles that Palo Alto provides.
1. Anti Virus
Anti Virus in Palo Alto Network firewall is an inline layer security profile that will stop any viruses trying to enter the network or also try to identify and block any outgoing traffic. Antivirus in Palo Alto is a licensed feature and threat prevention license needs to be purchased. Antivirus also needs to be updated regularly. Antivirus can be part of group security policy also can be used single handedly. Antivirus must be attached with a policy in order to come into effect.
Go to Objects > Security Profiles > Antivirus in order to configure Antivirus.
Antivirus Profile will then needed to be added to the respective policy or can also be associated with security profiles.
2. Anti Spyware
Spyware is a malware that shares information about end user (computers) without user consent. Spyware is usually hidden and very difficult to locate. Spyware is used to gather information from browser activity to download activity. Spyware is used to collect and sell user information to interested advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware also comes in the form of keyloggers.
Anti Spyware provides protection after the end host has been effected. It can also be referred to as post infection remediation. There are number of categories that Palo Alto can provide anti spyware protection against ranging from browser based , C&C, P2P-communication, keylogger etc. We can make a profile using any of the above mentioned category or can also select all. Top firewalls like Fortigate, Cisco Firepower even doesn't provide features like Anti Spyware whereas checkpoint does provide protection for post infected end host named as Anti Bot. The problem with Anti Bot is the protection is limited to C&C connection only.
Go to Objects > Security Profiles > Anti Spyware in order to configure Anti Spyware
Categories for spyware can also be set where protection can be provided accordingly if required. There are also additional features like packet capture if any threats are found which can be analyzed downloading using wireshark.
3. Vulnerability Protection
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