PAN-OS 10.2 and Later

Log in to the PAN-OS web interface.
To take advantage of inline cloud analysis, you must have an active Advanced Threat Prevention subscription.
To verify subscriptions for which you have currently-active licenses, select
Device
Licenses
and verify that the appropriate licenses are available and have not expired.

Update or create a new Anti-Spyware Security profile to enable inline cloud analysis (to analyze traffic for advanced C2 (command-and-control) and spyware threats in real-time).
Select an existing
Anti-Spyware Profile
or
Add
a new one (
Objects
Security Profiles
Anti-Spyware
).
Select your Anti-Spyware profile and then go to
Inline Cloud Analysis
and
Enable inline cloud analysis
.

Specify an
Action
to take when a threat is detected using a corresponding analysis engine.
The default action for each analysis engine is
alert
, however, Palo Alto Networks recommends setting all actions to
Reset-Both
for the best security posture.
Allow
—The request is allowed and no log entry is generated.
Alert
—The request is allowed and a Threat log entry is generated.
Drop
—Drops the request; a reset action is not sent to the host/application.
Reset-Client
—Resets the client-side connection.
Reset-Server
—Resets the server-side connection.
Reset-Both
—Resets the connection on both the client and server ends.
Click
OK
to exit the Anti-Spyware Profile configuration dialog and
Commit
your changes.
(Optional)
Add URL and/or IP address exceptions to your Anti-Spyware profile if Inline Cloud Analysis produces false-positives. You can add exceptions by specifying an external dynamic list (URL or IP address list types) or an
Addresses
object.
Add an
External Dynamic Lists
or [IP]
Addresses
object exception.
Select
Objects > Security Profiles > Anti-Spyware
.
Select an Anti-Spyware profile for which you want to exclude specific URLs and/or IP addresses and then select
Inline Cloud Analysis
.
Add
an
EDL URL
or
IP Address
, depending on the type of exception you want to add, and then select a pre-existing URL or IP address external dynamic list. If none are available, create a new external dynamic list. For IP address exceptions, you can, optionally, select an
Addresses
object list.

Click
OK
to save the Anti-Spyware profile and
Commit
your changes.
Update or create a new Vulnerability Protection Security profile to enable inline cloud analysis (to analyze traffic for command injection and SQL injection vulnerabilities in real-time).
Currently available only in PAN-OS 11.0.

Select an existing Vulnerability Protection security profile or
Add
a new one (
Objects
Security Profiles
Vulnerability Protection
).
Select your Vulnerability Protection profile and then go to
Inline Cloud Analysis
and
Enable cloud inline analysis
.
Specify an
Action
to take when a vulnerability exploit is detected using a corresponding analysis engine. There are currently two analysis engines available:
SQL Injection
and
Command Injection
.
Allow
—The request is allowed and no log entry is generated.
Alert
—The request is allowed and a Threat log entry is generated.
Reset-Client
—Resets the client-side connection.
Reset-Server
—Resets the server-side connection.
Reset-Both
—Resets the connection on both the client and server ends.
Click
OK
to exit the Vulnerability Protection Profile configuration dialog and
Commit
your changes.
(Optional)
Add URL and/or IP address exceptions to your Vulnerability Protection profile if Inline Cloud Analysis produces false-positives. You can add exceptions by specifying an external dynamic list (URL or IP address list types) or an
Addresses
object.
Add an
External Dynamic Lists
or [IP]
Addresses
object exception.
Select
Objects > Security Profiles > Vulnerability
to return to your Vulnerability Protection profile.
Select a Vulnerability profile for which you want to exclude specific URLs and/or IP addresses and then select
Inline Cloud Analysis
.
Add
an
EDL URL
or
IP Address
, depending on the type of exception you want to add, and then select a pre-existing URL or IP address external dynamic list. If none are available, create a new external dynamic list. For IP address exceptions, you can, optionally, select an
Addresses
object list.

Click
OK
to save the Vulnerability Protection profile and
Commit
your changes.
Configure the timeout latency and action to take when the request exceeds the max latency.
Select
Device
Setup
Content-ID
Threat Prevention Inline Cloud Analysis
.
Specify the timeout value and the associated action to take when latency limits are reached for Inline Cloud Analysis requests:
Max Latency (ms)—Specify the maximum acceptable processing time, in seconds, for Inline Cloud Analysis to return a result.
Allow on Max Latency—Enables the firewall to take the action of allow, when the maximum latency is reached. De-selecting this option sets the firewall action to block.
Log Traffic Not Scanned— Enables the firewall to log traffic requests that exhibit anomalous traits indicating the presence of advanced and evasive command-and-control (C2) threats, but have not been processed by Threat Prevention Inline Cloud analyzers.
Click
OK
to confirm your changes.
Install a Device Certificate Repeat for all firewalls enabled for inline cloud analysis.
(Optional)
Set the Cloud Content Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) used by the firewall to handle inline cloud analysis service requests. The default FQDN connects to hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com and then resolves to the closest cloud services server. You can override the automatic server selection by specifying a regional cloud content server that best meets your data residency and performance requirements.
The Cloud Content FQDN is a globally used resource and affects how other services that rely on this connection sends traffic payloads.
Verify that the firewall uses the correct Content Cloud FQDN (
Device
Setup
Content-ID
Content Cloud Setting
) for your region and change the FQDN if necessary:
If your NGFW is configured inline to facilitate a SaaS Security deployment, please note that the FQDNs located in France and Japan do not currently support SaaS Security functionality.
US Central (Iowa, US)—
us.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
Europe (Frankfurt, Germany)—
eu.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
APAC (Singapore)—
apac.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
India (Mumbai)—
in.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
UK (London, England)—
uk.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
France (Paris, France)—
fr.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
Japan (Tokyo, Japan)—
jp.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
Australia (Sydney, Australia)—
au.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
Canada (Montréal, Canada)—
ca.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
Switzerland (Zürich, Switzerland)—
ch.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
(Optional)
Verify the status of your firewall connectivity to the Advanced Threat Prevention cloud service.
Use the following CLI command on the firewall to view the connection status.
show ctd-agent status security-client 
For example:
show ctd-agent status security-client

...
Security Client AceMlc2(1)
Current cloud server:          hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com
Cloud connection:              connected
...
CLI output shortened for brevity.
If you are unable to connect to the Advanced Threat Prevention cloud service, verify that the following domain is not being blocked: hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com.
(Optional)
Monitor Advanced Threat Prevention