Advanced URL Filtering classifies websites based on
site content, features, and safety. A URL can have up to four URL
categories, including
risk categories (high, medium,
and low) 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 the PAN-DB database,
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 C2.