The following Palo Alto Networks subscriptions unlock
certain firewall features or enable the firewall to leverage a Palo
Alto Networks cloud-delivered service (or both). Here you can read
more about each service or feature that requires a subscription
to work with the firewall. To enable a subscription, you must first Activate Subscription Licenses; once active, most subscription
services can use Dynamic Content Updates to provide new and updated
functionality to the firewall.
Subscriptions You Can Use With
the Firewall
SD-WAN
Provides intelligent and dynamic path selection
on top of the industry-leading security that PAN-OS software already delivers.
Managed by Panorama, the SD-WAN implementation includes:
Provides enhanced DNS sinkholing capabilities
by querying DNS Security, an extensible cloud-based service capable
of generating DNS signatures using advanced predictive analytics and
machine learning. This service provides full access to the continuously
expanding DNS-based threat intelligence produced by Palo Alto Networks.
To
set up DNS Security, you must first purchase and install a Threat
Prevention license.
Provides the ability to not only control
web-access, but how users interact with online content based on
dynamic URL categories. You can also prevent credential theft by
controlling the sites to which users can submit their corporate credentials.
To
set up URL Filtering, you must purchase and install a subscription
for the supported URL filtering database, PAN-DB. With PAN-DB, you
can set up access to the PAN-DB public cloud or to the PAN-DB private
cloud.
URL filtering is no longer available as a standalone
subscription. All features contained in URL filtering are included
with the Advanced URL filtering subscription.
Advanced URL Filtering uses a cloud-based
ML-powered web security engine to perform ML-based inspection of
web traffic in real-time. This reduces reliance on URL databases
and out-of-band web crawling to detect and prevent advanced, file-less
web-based attacks including targeted phishing, web-delivered malware
and exploits, command-and-control, social engineering, and other
types of web attacks.
Although basic WildFire® support is included
as part of the Threat Prevention license, the WildFire subscription
service provides enhanced services for organizations that require immediate
coverage for threats, frequent WildFire signature updates, advanced
file type forwarding (APK, PDF, Microsoft Office, and Java Applet),
as well as the ability to upload files using the WildFire API. A
WildFire subscription is also required if your firewalls will be
forwarding files to an on-premise WF-500 appliance.
Provides a graphical analysis of firewall
traffic logs and identifies potential risks to your network using
threat intelligence from the AutoFocus portal. With an active license,
you can also open an AutoFocus search based on logs recorded on
the firewall.
Provides cloud-based, centralized log storage
and aggregation. The Logging Service is required or highly-recommended
to support several other cloud-delivered services, including Magnifier,
GlobalProtect cloud service, and Traps management service.
Cortex
Data Lake was previously called the Logging Service. The Customer
Support Portal and firewall web interface both still reference the
Logging Service in some places, including the device license name
that’s displayed in the firewall web interface (
Provides mobility solutions and/or large-scale
VPN capabilities. By default, you can deploy GlobalProtect portals
and gateways (without HIP checks) without a license. If you want
to use advanced GlobalProtect features (HIP checks and related content
updates, the GlobalProtect Mobile App, IPv6 connections, or a GlobalProtect
Clientless VPN) you will need a GlobalProtect Gateway license for
each gateway.
This is a perpetual license, and is required
to enable support for multiple virtual systems on PA-3200 Series
firewalls. In addition, you must purchase a Virtual Systems license
if you want to increase the number of virtual systems beyond the
base number provided by default on PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series
firewalls (the base number varies by platform). The PA-800 Series,
PA-220, and VM-Series firewalls do not support virtual systems.