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PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 10.2
- PAN-OS 10.1
- PAN-OS 10.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 9.1 (EoL)
- Cloud Management of NGFWs
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- Management Interfaces
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- Launch the Web Interface
- Use the Administrator Login Activity Indicators to Detect Account Misuse
- Manage and Monitor Administrative Tasks
- Commit, Validate, and Preview Firewall Configuration Changes
- Commit Selective Configuration Changes
- Export Configuration Table Data
- Use Global Find to Search the Firewall or Panorama Management Server
- Manage Locks for Restricting Configuration Changes
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- Define Access to the Web Interface Tabs
- Provide Granular Access to the Monitor Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Policy Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Objects Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Network Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Device Tab
- Define User Privacy Settings in the Admin Role Profile
- Restrict Administrator Access to Commit and Validate Functions
- Provide Granular Access to Global Settings
- Provide Granular Access to the Panorama Tab
- Provide Granular Access to Operations Settings
- Panorama Web Interface Access Privileges
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- Reset the Firewall to Factory Default Settings
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- Plan Your Authentication Deployment
- Pre-Logon for SAML Authentication
- Configure SAML Authentication
- Configure Kerberos Single Sign-On
- Configure Kerberos Server Authentication
- Configure TACACS+ Authentication
- Configure TACACS Accounting
- Configure RADIUS Authentication
- Configure LDAP Authentication
- Configure Local Database Authentication
- Configure an Authentication Profile and Sequence
- Test Authentication Server Connectivity
- Troubleshoot Authentication Issues
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- Keys and Certificates
- Default Trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs)
- Certificate Deployment
- Configure the Master Key
- Export a Certificate and Private Key
- Configure a Certificate Profile
- Configure an SSL/TLS Service Profile
- Configure an SSH Service Profile
- Replace the Certificate for Inbound Management Traffic
- Configure the Key Size for SSL Forward Proxy Server Certificates
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- HA Overview
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- Prerequisites for Active/Active HA
- Configure Active/Active HA
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- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Route-Based Redundancy
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Floating IP Addresses
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with ARP Load-Sharing
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Floating IP Address Bound to Active-Primary Firewall
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Source DIPP NAT Using Floating IP Addresses
- Use Case: Configure Separate Source NAT IP Address Pools for Active/Active HA Firewalls
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA for ARP Load-Sharing with Destination NAT
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA for ARP Load-Sharing with Destination NAT in Layer 3
- HA Clustering Overview
- HA Clustering Best Practices and Provisioning
- Configure HA Clustering
- Refresh HA1 SSH Keys and Configure Key Options
- HA Firewall States
- Reference: HA Synchronization
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- Use the Dashboard
- Monitor Applications and Threats
- Monitor Block List
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- Report Types
- View Reports
- Configure the Expiration Period and Run Time for Reports
- Disable Predefined Reports
- Custom Reports
- Generate Custom Reports
- Generate the SaaS Application Usage Report
- Manage PDF Summary Reports
- Generate User/Group Activity Reports
- Manage Report Groups
- Schedule Reports for Email Delivery
- Manage Report Storage Capacity
- View Policy Rule Usage
- Use External Services for Monitoring
- Configure Log Forwarding
- Configure Email Alerts
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- Configure Syslog Monitoring
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- Traffic Log Fields
- Threat Log Fields
- URL Filtering Log Fields
- Data Filtering Log Fields
- HIP Match Log Fields
- GlobalProtect Log Fields
- IP-Tag Log Fields
- User-ID Log Fields
- Decryption Log Fields
- Tunnel Inspection Log Fields
- SCTP Log Fields
- Authentication Log Fields
- Config Log Fields
- System Log Fields
- Correlated Events Log Fields
- GTP Log Fields
- Audit Log Fields
- Syslog Severity
- Custom Log/Event Format
- Escape Sequences
- Forward Logs to an HTTP/S Destination
- Firewall Interface Identifiers in SNMP Managers and NetFlow Collectors
- Monitor Transceivers
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- User-ID Overview
- Enable User-ID
- Map Users to Groups
- Enable User- and Group-Based Policy
- Enable Policy for Users with Multiple Accounts
- Verify the User-ID Configuration
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- App-ID Overview
- App-ID and HTTP/2 Inspection
- Manage Custom or Unknown Applications
- Safely Enable Applications on Default Ports
- Applications with Implicit Support
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- Prepare to Deploy App-ID Cloud Engine
- Enable or Disable the App-ID Cloud Engine
- App-ID Cloud Engine Processing and Policy Usage
- New App Viewer (Policy Optimizer)
- Add Apps to an Application Filter with Policy Optimizer
- Add Apps to an Application Group with Policy Optimizer
- Add Apps Directly to a Rule with Policy Optimizer
- Replace an RMA Firewall (ACE)
- Impact of License Expiration or Disabling ACE
- Commit Failure Due to Cloud Content Rollback
- Troubleshoot App-ID Cloud Engine
- Application Level Gateways
- Disable the SIP Application-level Gateway (ALG)
- Maintain Custom Timeouts for Data Center Applications
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- Decryption Overview
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- Keys and Certificates for Decryption Policies
- SSL Forward Proxy
- SSL Forward Proxy Decryption Profile
- SSL Inbound Inspection
- SSL Inbound Inspection Decryption Profile
- SSL Protocol Settings Decryption Profile
- SSH Proxy
- SSH Proxy Decryption Profile
- Profile for No Decryption
- SSL Decryption for Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) Certificates
- Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) Support for SSL Decryption
- SSL Decryption and Subject Alternative Names (SANs)
- TLSv1.3 Decryption
- High Availability Not Supported for Decrypted Sessions
- Decryption Mirroring
- Configure SSL Forward Proxy
- Configure SSL Inbound Inspection
- Configure SSH Proxy
- Configure Server Certificate Verification for Undecrypted Traffic
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Detection and Control
- Enable Users to Opt Out of SSL Decryption
- Temporarily Disable SSL Decryption
- Configure Decryption Port Mirroring
- Verify Decryption
- Activate Free Licenses for Decryption Features
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- Policy Types
- Policy Objects
- Track Rules Within a Rulebase
- Enforce Policy Rule Description, Tag, and Audit Comment
- Move or Clone a Policy Rule or Object to a Different Virtual System
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- External Dynamic List
- Built-in External Dynamic Lists
- Configure the Firewall to Access an External Dynamic List
- Retrieve an External Dynamic List from the Web Server
- View External Dynamic List Entries
- Exclude Entries from an External Dynamic List
- Enforce Policy on an External Dynamic List
- Find External Dynamic Lists That Failed Authentication
- Disable Authentication for an External Dynamic List
- Register IP Addresses and Tags Dynamically
- Use Dynamic User Groups in Policy
- Use Auto-Tagging to Automate Security Actions
- CLI Commands for Dynamic IP Addresses and Tags
- Application Override Policy
- Test Policy Rules
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- Network Segmentation Using Zones
- How Do Zones Protect the Network?
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PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 10.2
- PAN-OS 10.1
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- Tap Interfaces
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- Layer 2 and Layer 3 Packets over a Virtual Wire
- Port Speeds of Virtual Wire Interfaces
- LLDP over a Virtual Wire
- Aggregated Interfaces for a Virtual Wire
- Virtual Wire Support of High Availability
- Zone Protection for a Virtual Wire Interface
- VLAN-Tagged Traffic
- Virtual Wire Subinterfaces
- Configure Virtual Wires
- Configure a PPPoE Client on a Subinterface
- Configure an IPv6 PPPoE Client
- Configure an Aggregate Interface Group
- Configure Bonjour Reflector for Network Segmentation
- Use Interface Management Profiles to Restrict Access
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- DHCP Overview
- Firewall as a DHCP Server and Client
- Firewall as a DHCPv6 Client
- DHCP Messages
- Dynamic IPv6 Addressing on the Management Interface
- Configure an Interface as a DHCP Server
- Configure an Interface as a DHCPv4 Client
- Configure an Interface as a DHCPv6 Client with Prefix Delegation
- Configure the Management Interface as a DHCP Client
- Configure the Management Interface for Dynamic IPv6 Address Assignment
- Configure an Interface as a DHCP Relay Agent
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- DNS Overview
- DNS Proxy Object
- DNS Server Profile
- Multi-Tenant DNS Deployments
- Configure a DNS Proxy Object
- Configure a DNS Server Profile
- Use Case 1: Firewall Requires DNS Resolution
- Use Case 2: ISP Tenant Uses DNS Proxy to Handle DNS Resolution for Security Policies, Reporting, and Services within its Virtual System
- Use Case 3: Firewall Acts as DNS Proxy Between Client and Server
- DNS Proxy Rule and FQDN Matching
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- NAT Rule Capacities
- Dynamic IP and Port NAT Oversubscription
- Dataplane NAT Memory Statistics
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- Translate Internal Client IP Addresses to Your Public IP Address (Source DIPP NAT)
- Create a Source NAT Rule with Persistent DIPP
- PAN-OS
- Strata Cloud Manager
- Enable Clients on the Internal Network to Access your Public Servers (Destination U-Turn NAT)
- Enable Bi-Directional Address Translation for Your Public-Facing Servers (Static Source NAT)
- Configure Destination NAT with DNS Rewrite
- Configure Destination NAT Using Dynamic IP Addresses
- Modify the Oversubscription Rate for DIPP NAT
- Reserve Dynamic IP NAT Addresses
- Disable NAT for a Specific Host or Interface
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- Network Packet Broker Overview
- How Network Packet Broker Works
- Prepare to Deploy Network Packet Broker
- Configure Transparent Bridge Security Chains
- Configure Routed Layer 3 Security Chains
- Network Packet Broker HA Support
- User Interface Changes for Network Packet Broker
- Limitations of Network Packet Broker
- Troubleshoot Network Packet Broker
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- Enable Advanced Routing
- Logical Router Overview
- Configure a Logical Router
- Create a Static Route
- Configure BGP on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create BGP Routing Profiles
- Create Filters for the Advanced Routing Engine
- Configure OSPFv2 on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create OSPF Routing Profiles
- Configure OSPFv3 on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create OSPFv3 Routing Profiles
- Configure RIPv2 on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create RIPv2 Routing Profiles
- Create BFD Profiles
- Configure IPv4 Multicast
- Configure MSDP
- Create Multicast Routing Profiles
- Create an IPv4 MRoute
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PAN-OS 10.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 11.2
- PAN-OS 11.1
- PAN-OS 11.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 10.2
- PAN-OS 10.1
- PAN-OS 10.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 9.1 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 9.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 8.1 (EoL)
- Cloud Management and AIOps for NGFW
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- Enterprise Data Loss Prevention Features
- IoT Security Features
- Content Inspection Features
- Decryption Features
- GlobalProtect Features
- Management Features
- Certificate Management Features
- Panorama Features
- Networking Features
- User-ID Features
- Policy Features
- Authentication Features
- WildFire Features
- Virtualization Features
- SD-WAN Features
- Mobile Infrastructure Security Features
- New Hardware Introduced with PAN-OS 10.0
- Changes to Default Behavior
- Associated Software and Content Versions
- Limitations
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- PAN-OS 10.0.12 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.11 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.10 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.9 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.8 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.7 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.6 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.5 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.4 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.3 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.2 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.1 Known Issues
- Known Issues for the CN-Series on Version 10.0
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- PAN-OS 10.0.12-h6 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.12-h5 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.12-h4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.12-h3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.12-h1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.12 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.11-h4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.11-h3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.11-h1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.11 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.10-h1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.10 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.9 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.8-h11 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.8-h10 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.8-h8 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.8-h4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.8 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.7 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.6 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.5 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.2 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 10.0.0 Addressed Issues
End-of-Life (EoL)
Networking Features
PAN-OS 10.0 supports new networking features.
New Networking Feature | Description |
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IKEv2 Support for AES-GCM Encryption (Available
with PAN-OS® 10.0.3 and later 10.0 releases) | Security-conscious customers in financial
verticals and other markets who have VPN deployments are standardizing
on strong IKE and IPSec security and require PAN-OS firewalls to
support AES-GCM (Advanced Encryption Standard with Galois/Counter
Mode). PAN-OS firewalls now support two new encryption algorithms
for IKEv2 crypto profiles: AES-GCM with 128-bit strength and AES-GCM
with 256-bit strength to provide compatibility with other devices
and to provide stronger security than AES-CBC (AES with Cipher-Block
Chaining). |
Bonjour Reflector for Network Segmentation (Available
with PAN-OS® 10.0.1 and later 10.0 releases) | To support Apple Bonjour in network environments that
use segmentation to route traffic for security or administrative
purposes (for example, where servers and clients are in different
subnets), you can now forward Bonjour IPv4 traffic between Layer
3 (L3) Ethernet or Aggregated Ethernet (AE) interfaces or subinterfaces
that you specify. The Bonjour Reflector option allows you to forward
multicast Bonjour advertisements and queries to up to 16 L3 Ethernet
and AE interfaces or subinterfaces, ensuring user access to services
and device discoverability regardless of Time To Live (TTL) values
or hop limitations. |
HA Clustering for Multiple Data Centers | Data centers with multiple locations and
high throughput need high availability (HA) with more than two members
to ensure high reliability and to avoid a single point of failure.
PAN-OS HA can now support clustering of up to 16 firewalls that
perform session state synchronization. HA pairs in each data center
prevent a single firewall failure and a data center failure, and asymmetric
traffic from a data center is not dropped when sent to another data
center. |
HA Clustering for Horizontal Scaling
of Firewalls | Within a data center, HA solutions must
be able to scale horizontally. To provide seamless horizontal scalability of
performance and capacity, PAN-OS HA can now support clustering of
up to 16 firewalls that perform session state synchronization. In
the event of a network outage or a firewall going down, the sessions
fail over to a different firewall in the cluster. |
HA Additional Path Monitoring Groups | To allow more flexible control over high
availability (HA) deployments, you now have support for the use
of multiple different destination IP groups within a single virtual
wire (vwire), VLAN, and virtual router instance in PAN-OS and VMs.
In addition to the option to set failure condition parameters for
destination IP groups, you have greater granularity in controlling
your HA failovers over those vwire, VLAN, and virtual router instances
through segmentation. |
Packet Buffer Protection Based on Latency | Some protocols and applications are sensitive
to latency; you can now enable packet buffer protection based on
latency, which triggers protection before the latency affects the
protocol or application. Packet buffer protection based on buffer
utilization (which was available prior to PAN-OS 10.0) defends your
firewall and network from single-session DoS attacks that can overwhelm
the firewall’s packet buffer and cause legitimate traffic to drop; it
is now enabled by default. |
Ethernet SGT Protection | In a Cisco TrustSec network, firewalls need
to be able to identify and block packets that have specific Security Group
Tags (SGTs) in their 802.1Q header. You can now do so at the ingress
zone by creating a Zone Protection profile that lists SGTs to block,
which results in better performance than blocking packets with security
policy rules. |
Aggregate Interface Group Capacity Increase | The need to support more link aggregation
groups for network resiliency has increased as firewalls are positioned closer
to endpoints to provide better visibility and control. The number
of aggregate Ethernet (AE) interface groups that the PA-3200 Series,
PA-5200 Series, and most PA-7000 Series firewalls support increased
from 8 to 16. The exception is the PA-7000 Series firewall with PA-7000-100G-NPC-A
and SMC-B, which increased from 8 to 32 AE interface groups. On
all of these supported firewall models, QoS is supported on only
the first eight AE interface groups. |
ECMP Strict Source Path | When you enable ECMP for a virtual router,
IKE and IPSec traffic originating at the firewall by default egresses an
interface that the ECMP load-balancing method determines. If the
firewall has more than one ISP providing equal-cost paths to the
same destination, one ISP could block legitimate traffic that arrives
on an unexpected interface that ECMP chose. To avoid that problem,
you can now enable ECMP Strict Source Path to ensure that IKE and IPSec
traffic originating at the firewall always egresses the physical
interface to which the source IP address of the IPSec tunnel belongs. |
Tunnel Acceleration for GRE, VXLAN, and GTP | Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), Virtual Extensible
Local Area Network (VXLAN), and GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) are
now supported by tunnel acceleration in the network processor, which
improves performance and throughput.
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Advanced Route Engine (Preview
Mode Only) | The advanced route engine allows the firewall
to scale and provide stable, high-performing, and highly available
routing functions to large data centers, ISPs, enterprises, and
cloud users. The advanced route engine supports BGP and static routes
only. This upcoming route engine feature is in preview mode and
is considered beta; it is for customers who want to use BGP and
static routes and doesn’t support other routing protocols, such
as OSPF. |