Palo Alto Networks Firewall | Dropzone AI Documentation

Palo Alto Networks Firewall

Note that this is different from the "Palo Alto Cortex XDR/XSIAM" cloud and EDR data and alert source.

The Dropzone AI Platform integrates with Palo Alto Networks Firewall, a leading next-generation firewall solution. Integrating Palo Alto with Dropzone allows Dropzone to automatically investigate security incidents by analyzing network traffic data within the firewall ecosystem. Additionally, Dropzone can assess threat logs from Palo Alto Firewall, enabling deeper investigations into potential attacks and enhancing proactive threat detection and response.

Integrations Overview

To enable these integrations you will perform the following actions:

Create an Admin with Read Only permissions
Generate an API key

Create an Admin Role Profile

At the top of your Palo Alto account, navigate to Device
In the left sidebar, navigate to Admin Roles
In the bottom left corner, click "Add"
Click XML API and enable the Log and Operational Requests permissions
Name the Admin Role Profile something memorable, such as "Dropzone-AI"
Click "OK"
In the left sidebar, navigate to Administrators
In the bottom corner, click "Add"
Name the new administrator something memorable, such as "Dropzone-Admin", and create a memorable password. Be sure to save these, as they will be used later to generate the API token
Assign the administrator the "Role Based" type
In "Profile", select the name of the profile you just created
Click "Ok"
In the top corner, click "Commit"

Generate an API Key

To obtain an API Key, do the following:

Using the administrative credentials you just generated, SSH into the Palo Alto firewall
Run the following commands:

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https://<FIREWALL_IP>/api/?type=keygen&user=<USERNAME>

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curl -k http(s)://<host>:<port>/api/?type=keygen&user=<user>&password=<password>

Copy the API key generated and store it in a safe location for use later in the Dropzone UI where it is called "API key"
For further information, see the Palo Alto API documentation

Enable Palo Alto Firewall

To enable the Data Source integration, you will need the following information:

Dropzone Field

Source

Server

The same as your company server url in Palo Alto, eg https://<111.22.33.444>

API Key

The API key value you generated earlier

Navigate to your Dropzone AI tenant home page e.g. https:// mycompany.dropzone.app
In the bottom left hand corner, click Settings > Integrations
Click "Available"
In the Search bar, search Palo Alto Networks Firewall, then click "Configure"
Under the Data Source heading, if your Palo Alto integration is behind an On-premise Dropzone Connector, select your connector from the dropdown
Input your Server and the API Key
Click "Test & Save" to finish

If you have any errors engage your Dropzone AI support representative.