AutoFocus

AutoFocus is a cloud-based threat intelligence service that enables you to easily identify critical attacks, so that you can triage effectively and take action without requiring additional IT resources. AutoFocus correlates threat data from your network, industry, and global intelligence feeds, and surfaces what’s most important. This includes giving you a direct pipeline to actionable intelligence from Unit 42, the Palo Alto Networks threat research team—AutoFocus lets you know if adversaries and campaigns discovered by Unit 42 have targeted your network, or networks like yours.

Release Highlights

Date	Highlights
August 2021	AutoFocus™ support for MineMeld has reached end-of-life and will no longer be accessible from the AutoFocus portal. For more information about migration to the Cortex XSOAR Threat Intel Management platform or alternative solutions, refer to the MineMeld End-of-Life Announcement.
May 2021	The AutoFocus™ search mechanism has been improved to optimize performance and reliability.
October 2020	AutoFocus™ now integrates analysis and session data from samples uploaded to the WildFire cloud from Cortex XDR. This provides a centralized view of all your upload sources to help your organization assess the attack surface and specific attack vectors that make your organization vulnerable to threats. The AutoFocus™ search now incorporates analysis data derived from the improved URL analysis capabilities found in the WildFire global cloud.
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Getting Started

Documentation

AutoFocus™ Administrator’s Guide

AutoFocus™ is a threat intelligence service that provides an interactive, graphical interface for analyzing and contextualizing the threats your network faces. AutoFocus especially helps you to keep up with threat trends related to targeted cyberattacks, so that you can take a preventive approach to securing your network. The AutoFocus Administrator's Guide gives you everything you need to get started with AutoFocus: learn about how AutoFocus works, set up meaningful alerts for advanced attacks, and even use AutoFocus IoCs to enforce security policy on a Palo Alto Networks firewall.

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AutoFocus® API Reference

The AutoFocus™ API extends the ability to query the threat intelligence cloud through a programmatic, RESTful API. You can integrate this API into a third-party service, application, or script that accesses AutoFocus outside of the web portal. API responses are in JSON or XML-based STIX format.

APIs

Videos

Become a Threat Hunter: AutoFocus Innovations

More data doesn’t always equal better prevention. It can feel like there is an arms race underway, with security operations and response professionals in the sights of an escalating amount of alerts and threat data, which can sometimes do more harm than good. What is needed is an outcome-driven approach to threat intelligence, with a focus on prevention and operationalizing action, versus simply adding more data.

Intro to the AutoFocus API

This video demonstrates how to quickly find samples and sessions with specific artifacts in AutoFocus.

AutoFocus Integration With Firewall Logs

Launch queries from the firewall/Panorama log monitor page to AutoFocus for a selected log element, and receive information from AutoFocus in the firewall/Panorama UI.

Finding Ransomware with AutoFocus and Aperture

Using a scenario, we discover how quickly you can find information regarding ransomware in your environment using Aperture and AutoFocus.