Palo Alto Networks
TMA-PALOALTO-6.24
Ensure that 'Inline Cloud Analysis' on Anti-Spyware profiles are enabled if 'Advanced Threat Prevention' is available
Description
Enable 'Inline Cloud Analysis' on Anti-Spyware profiles to detect and protection against advanced, highly-evasive zero-day command-and-control (C2) threats. PASS requires cloud-inline-analysis yes on an anti-spyware profile (only applicable with Advanced Threat Prevention); confirm model actions are reset-both. Audited against the PAN-OS running configuration in set format: run 'set cli config-output-format set', then 'configure' and 'show' (or 'show config running') and save the full output.
How it is checked
Audit method: Configuration pattern
- Pattern
(?m)^set (?:shared |vsys \S+ |device-group \S+ |template \S+ config (?:shared |vsys \S+ )?)?profiles spyware (?:"[^"\n]*"|\S+) cloud-inline-analysis yes[ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
configure set profiles spyware <profile> cloud-inline-analysis yes commit # CIS guidance: Navigate to Objects > Security Profiles > Anti-Spyware Go to Inline Cloud Analysis tab. Tick the checkbox for Enable cloud inline analysis. Verify that all Model action is set as reset-both. Note that, firewall device certificate is used to authenticate to the Advanced Threat Prevention inline cloud analysis service. This step is required before Inline Cloud Analysis can be used. Refer to reference for detailed guide.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- paloaltothreat-prevention
- Reference
- CIS Palo Alto Firewall 11 Benchmark v1.2.0 - 6.24 Ensure that 'Inline Cloud Analysis' on Anti-Spyware profiles are enabled if 'Advanced Threat Prevention' is available
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target paloalto