Organizations require rapid, comprehensive threat intelligence but often struggle to leverage security advisories distributed in third-party formats like Snort and Suricata. This challenge leaves network defenses incomplete and vulnerable to emerging threats not yet covered by internal systems. Strata Cloud Manager now allows you to create custom application signatures that can detect, monitor, and prevent network-based attacks, based on Snort signatures and Suricata rules.

Snort and Suricata are third party open-source intrusion prevention system (IPS) tools that utilize specialized rule formats to identify potential threats. Because organizations that share threat intelligence often distribute security advisories using these rule formats, the additional coverage can reveal threats that might not be apparent on any single IPS system. The IPS Signature Converter functionality allows you to leverage these open-source rules for immediate threat protection on Palo Alto Networks Strata Cloud Manager by translating the IPS signatures from Snort and Suricata into custom threat signatures.

After the Snort or Suricata rules are converted, you can use these signatures to enforce security policies by incorporating the converted signatures into your Vulnerability Protection and Anti-Spyware Security Profiles.

By leveraging this conversion process, you can quickly adapt and implement a wide range of threat detection rules from the open-source community, enhancing your network's security posture with up-to-date and comprehensive threat intelligence.