Palo Alto PA-220 Advanced URL Filtering Lizenz (End of Sale/Life)

Advanced URL Filtering from Palo Alto Networks delivers best-in-class web protection for the modern enterprise. With this powerful solution, customers benefit from both the capabilities of our renowned database of malicious URLs and the industry's first deep-learning-powered, real-time web protection capability. As a result, they are able to automatically detect and block new and targeted web-based threats instantly. That's real-time protection for enterprises.

The benefits of Advanced URL Filtering

Advanced URL Filtering is a cloud-based subscription service that integrates natively with your Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) to protect your network from web-based threats such as phishing campaigns, malware and command-and-control (C2) communications.

URLs are then analyzed in real time using ML models and classified as harmless or harmful. You can integrate this classification into NGFW policies for seamless web traffic control. Once classified, other NGFW platform features are launched for additional protection, such as targeted SSL decryption and advanced logging. In addition to its own analysis results, Advanced URL Filtering also uses shared threat data from Palo Alto Networks' industry-leading malware protection, WildFire®, and other sources to automatically update security features to protect against malicious websites. Advanced URL Filtering benefits include:

• Best-in-class protection against web-based attacks thanks to the combination of the URL database to defend against known threats and an ML-powered web security engine in the cloud that can classify and block new malicious URLs in real time, even if the content has been obfuscated to crawlers. Advanced URL Filtering prevents 40 percent more threats than traditional web filtering databases.
• Industry-leading phishing protection for the most common attack methods
• Seamless control of web traffic via fine-grained controls and policy settings that allow automated security actions to be launched based on users, risk ratings, and content
• Maximize operational efficiency by protecting web connections through the Palo Alto Networks platform

Important functions of Advanced UTL filtering

According to Palo Alto Networks analysis, the number of malicious websites increased 127 percent between 2019 and 2021.2 With so many new developments, nearly all threats are unknown to network security solutions.

In addition, 40 percent of malicious URLs originate from legitimate domains3 as attackers attempt to embed threats into websites that were considered trusted. The status of a URL can change between harmless and malicious multiple times. If your security solution doesn't continuously check this, the risk to your network increases. Modern enterprises can no longer rely solely on static databases with elaborate update processes. A new approach is required.

Advanced URL Filtering provides best-in-class web protection by detecting and blocking new threats in real time, preventing initial infections. Cloud-based inline ML techniques don't rely on data from web crawlers, but analyze web traffic in real time and detect and block malicious URLs in milliseconds - before your organization can be infected. Our ML models are regularly updated to keep threat intelligence current and reliably detect web-based attacks. The latest innovative detection engines are available in our extensible cloud-based architecture, saving you the hassle of updating.

Blind reliance on offline crawlers and databases that need to be updated in tedious processes is simply not enough these days. Advanced URL Filtering is already a step ahead, offering the industry's first inline web protection engine that can detect unknown web-based threats and block them in real time. Preventing evasion methods Modern attackers have evolved their techniques to evade security solutions, and 90 percent of phishing kits sold on the dark web include at least one evasion method. The most commonly used technique is cloaking. It exploits the fact that many Web security solutions rely solely on offline crawling of Web content for threat detection. Attackers can map specific IP addresses and hosts to security companies and then either block those connections or redirect them to harmless content. Advanced URL Filtering, on the other hand, analyzes live Web content, disrupting the hackers' activities and revealing the malicious Web sites behind the evasions.