Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering protects against web-based threats by giving you a way to safely enable web access while controlling how your users interact with online content.

With URL Filtering enabled, all web traffic (HTTP and HTTPS) on any port is:

Although the Palo Alto Networks URL filtering solution supports both BrightCloud and PAN-DB, only the PAN-DB URL filtering solution allows you to choose between the

PAN-DB Public Cloud

and the

PAN-DB Private Cloud

. Use the public cloud solution if the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls on your network can directly access the Internet. If the network security requirements in your enterprise prohibit the firewalls from directly accessing the Internet, you can deploy a PAN-DB private cloud on one or more M-600 appliances that function as PAN-DB servers within your network.