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    About Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering Solution

    URL filtering is a technology that allows you to control your users’ web access and prevent them from accessing sites known to host malicious content.
    Palo Alto Networks URL filtering solution, Advanced URL Filtering, is a subscription-based feature that protects against web-based threats by giving you a way to safely enable web access while controlling how your users interact with online content. The Advanced URL Filtering subscription provides all of the functionality offered by the legacy URL Filtering subscription, while also providing the added benefit of real-time URL analysis.
    Legacy URL Filtering subscription holders are able to continue using their URL filtering deployment until the end of the license term.
    You can create policy rules to limit access to sites based on URL categories, users, and groups. (See URL Filtering Use Cases for different ways you can leverage Advanced URL Filtering to meet your organization’s web security needs.)
    With URL Filtering enabled, all web traffic (HTTP and HTTPS) on any port is:
    • Compared against the PAN-DB URL database, which contains millions of websites that have been categorized. You can use these URL categories in URL Filtering profiles or as match criteria to enforce Security policy. You can also use URL filtering to enforce safe search settings for your users and to prevent credential theft based on URL category.
    • Analyzed in real-time using the cloud-based Advanced URL Filtering detection modules to provide protection against new and unknown threats that do not currently exist in the URL filtering database.
    • Inspected for phishing and malicious JavaScript using inline machine learning (ML), a firewall-based analysis solution, which can block unknown malicious web pages in real-time.
    If the network security requirements in your enterprise prohibit the firewalls from directly accessing the Internet, Palo Alto Networks provides an offline URL filtering solution with the PAN-DB Private Cloud. This allows you to deploy a PAN-DB private cloud on one or more M-600 appliances that function as PAN-DB servers within your network.

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