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Palo Alto Networks WildFire

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What is Palo Alto Networks WildFire?

Palo Alto Network’s WildFire is a malware prevention service. It specializes in addressing zero-day threats through dynamic and static analysis, machine learning, and advanced sandbox testing environments.

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What is Palo Alto Networks WildFire?

Palo Alto Network’s WildFire is a malware prevention service. It specializes in addressing zero-day threats through dynamic and static analysis, machine learning, and advanced sandbox testing environments.

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What is Palo Alto Networks WildFire?

Palo Alto Network’s WildFire is a malware prevention service. It specializes in addressing zero-day exploits and malware. WildFire utilizes a combination of dynamic and static analysis, as well as machine learning, to automate threat prevention. It shares real-time threat intelligence across the user base, and provides advanced sandbox testing environments to reveal zero-day threats before they get to users’ systems.

WildFire can be deployed on-premises, via the cloud, or as a hybrid system. It can integrate with third-party security tools. It is a cloud-based system to enable efficient scaling and optimizes with other Palo Alto product offerings.

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Score 7 out of 10
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It's been used as an APT and zero day. It's leveraging the current Palo Alto deployment where they're located at perimeter, data center and cloud.

Main usage is for the perimeter defense for the whole organization.

Without WildFire, static analysis and file checks do not give the up-to-date protection level for current infrastructure. That's also assisting the SOC for threat detection and hunting. Autofocus integration is a plus for file trajectory. API integrations with different solutions enrich the product usability.

  • Integration with Palo Alto solutions (very easy and one-click).
  • Zero day detection.
  • AutoFocus integration.
  • Leveraging the Palo Alto threat prevention features.
  • API integration with different solutions (many of them already built-in configurations).
  • Unit 42 threat research team behind the WildFire.
  • Integration with 3rd-party feeds.
  • Upcoming solutions and acquisitions of Palo Alto are integrated and built-in capability of WF usage.
  • Local WF appliance is lacking in term of functionality like no bare metal analysis in local solution.
  • No new features coming to local WF appliances.
  • No built-in integration with GlobalProtect Agent.
  • Cloud WF does not have the option for specific regions to be used (compliance).
  • Cloud side does not have alarming option for [degraded] performance.
  • Lack of forensics (needs additional product or integration).

If an already implied Palo Alto Networks solutions, I'll definitely recommend.

From the cost perspective it's very competitive even from the scratch to get a Palo Alto Network firewall and open TP + WF. It'll surely cover your ATP needs.

Virtualwire integration with PAN firewall and WF works well and very easy to setup. Even it can be used additional 2nd layer of defense for enhancing current solutions.

Reports are magnificent.

Performance is great.

However for heterogeneous environments there are other solutions to take a look at.

For local-only solutions: Wildfire is not very suitable as it's lacking in terms of functionality.

  • Adding it to the already implied PAN infrastructure is cheap compared to other vendors.
  • Opening WF integration on the Datacenter segmentation is somehow costly.
  • From the audit perspective it's covering the gaps of IT security.

I don't want to mention the names and capabilities of all the products. We are making several POCs, acquired and deployed in the production network. WildFire's main advantage is the cost. You do not need additional HW, SW or maintenance/operational cost to run this product.

Monitoring is very good. Not very complex, make the configuration and runs without worry.

File/malware detection rates are very high. And it works like it's expected to.

FP rates are low.

PAN support is very good. You can get the reasonable and timely support on any conditions. When the product is already integrated with the PAN firewalls, you can choose the severity levels based on the effect. The customer service/TAC is very helpful, they even have additional recommendations of advises for product usability. Local partners are also assisting the cases and give their expertise.
Score 10 out of 10
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We are using Wildfire to protect our network at several layers, we're using it on our edge networks to protect from threats on the internet as well as protecting our internal client networks from threats that may exist in our shared services environment or each other in the case of a few specific clients who are allowed to talk to each other. Additionally we use it to protect our corporate presence from the internet as well as our remote hosting environment. Wildfire has proven to be a lifesaver through several zero-day events including wanna-cry.
  • Detecting malware
  • Zero-day threat prevention
  • Keeping you up to date with the latest threats
  • Cost
  • I would personally like to see more JSON support in the API rather than XML, but that's being very nitpicky
Palo Alto Networks Wildfire is well suited for pretty much anywhere that you need the latest and greatest network security. It is extremely good at protecting you from the latest malware threats that might pose a potential problem for your network/endpoints. We've been very please since we installed it and I would say cost of the Palo Altos is the only drawback. If money were no object I'd go with a Palo Alto with Wildfire every time. But unfortunately in some smaller branches it just doesn't make financial sense.
  • Protected us and our clients from Wanna-Cry!
  • Made for a more secure network.
  • Allows us to provide multiple clients with shared services while protecting us and all of our clients from the latest threats.
Palo Alto and Wildfire are kind of unique, they give you much deeper inspection then was previously available with ASAs or really any sort of traditional firewall. Once they introduced the application aware firewalls that are capable of utilizing Wildfire it was a game changer and has made us able to react to new threats quicker than ever before by catching them before they make it into the network rather than after they've made it into the network and infected a host.
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Our network & security engineers are the ones that are responsible for using Palo Alto Networks Wildfire. We're using it to address the high security requirements and concerns of our customers and to ensure that their remote hosted systems are kept safe and secure. Which can and has been challenging in the past, but Wildfire helps make this much simpler and is constantly updating.
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We have a rather large team of network and security engineers supporting our Palo Alto Network devices that have Wildfire enabled. Their job is not solely maintaining WildFire and the Palo Altos though so I wouldn't let the number of engineers that we have scare you away from using Wildfire.
  • Malware detection
  • Zero Day Protection
  • Automated Threat Prevention
  • None really, it's been pretty easy to use/setup out of the box and does what it's intended to do.
  • We're looking at implementing Palo Altos in place of ASAs between our clients and our datacenters. This should give us higher layer visibility & malware detection between us and our clients.
It works very well and takes care of protecting us from threats new and well-known. It's been a game changer in terms of threat detection & prevention.
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We've begun using Palo Alto Firewalls in place of older ASAs and they work amazingly well. The logging and tools in the Palo Alto ecosystem are incredibly useful. More specifically Palo Alto Expedition made the migration painless.
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
Palo Alto has some rather unique capabilities when compared to the competition.
Might have started with larger firewalls and implemented them in more places to capitalize on the savings from buying in bulk.
For the most part they're pretty responsive and the problem gets resolved in a few hours. We've had a few issues with having to replace an unusually high number of power supplies in our Palo Alto devices, but those tickets are normally resolved pretty quickly and other than that we really haven't had many issues. There has been maybe one or two incidents where it took a couple days to get to the root cause, but none of them have been production impacting as we've deployed our Palos in redundant pairs and the failover worked well for us.
I can't think of anything specific to Wildfire but they're generally really quick with providing power supply replacements when we need them.
  • Dynamic Updates
  • Traffic inspection for malware detection & threat prevention.
  • Haven't really found any, the Palo Alto ecosystem in general is pretty easy to use and very well documented.
Easy to use and works well. For the most part it's set it and forget it, but there's also some flexibility for high security environments and those with extra privacy concerns.
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