Advanced URL Filtering classifies websites based on site content,
features, and safety. A URL can have up to four
URL categories,
including risk categories, that indicate the likelihood that the
site will expose you to threats. As PAN-DB, the Advanced URL Filtering
URL database, categorizes sites, firewalls with Advanced URL Filtering
enabled can leverage that knowledge to enforce your organization’s
security policies. In addition to the protection offered by PAN-DB, Advanced
URL Filtering provides real-time analysis using machine learning
to defend against new and unknown threats. This provides protection
against malicious URLs that are updated or introduced before URL
filtering databases have an opportunity to analyze and add the content,
giving attackers an open period from which they can launch precision
attack campaigns. Advanced URL Filtering compensates for the coverage
gaps inherent in database solutions by providing real-time URL analysis
on a per request basis. The ML-based models used by advanced URL
filtering have been trained, and are continuously updated, to detect
various malicious URLs, phishing web pages, and command-and-control
(C2).