WildFire

WildFire

May 2019

Objective

Learn the purpose of WildFire and what a WildFire security

profile is.

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Detecting Unknown Threats Using WildFire

WildFire
Updates  Malicious IP address
Is sample benign,
grayware,
lists
Generates
phishing, new Antivirus
malware? signatures
 Malicious domain name
lists

Unknown files Files with

 PAN-DB URL category
and URLs known viruses lists
Requires WildFire
subscription

Worldwide PAN-OS®
Firewalls

Detecting Known and Unknown Threats

Security Profiles

 Antivirus
Detect
 Anti-Spyware
and
 Vulnerability Protection
control
 URL Filtering
known
 Data Filtering
Network Traffic threats
 File Blocking

Detect
and
control  WildFire Analysis
unknown
threats

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WildFire Analysis Profile

WildFire Analysis Profile

Security Private Cloud

Policy Rule
Application?
File Allow
File type?

Private Cloud

Knowledge Check
How can the Palo Alto Security Operating Environment protect against unknown threats?

A. The firewall features of User-ID, App-ID, Security Rules, Antivirus

Profiles, and External Dynamic Lists combine to protect against
unknown threats.

B. No security protection environment can protect against unknown

threats, because they are unknown.

C. The Next-Generation Firewall uses the WildFire cloud-based

threat analysis service to detect malicious behavior in even
unknown files.

D. The WildFire profile allows the Next-Generation Firewall by itself

to protect against unknown threats..

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