5.7 Choosing Wildfire public cloud region

Information

By default, all relevant files are uploaded to Wildfire datacenter located in US. Palo Alto Networks has been adding more WildFire regional clouds around the world. From having just 3 regional clouds back in PanOS 8.x, now to more than 10 regional clouds all over the world.

Rationale:

Depending on regulations, files is only allowed to be uploaded to local country / region. Besides, uploading to local country or even nearest country decreases file uploading speed.

Refer to the available regions in the references below.

Impact:

With default values, all relevant files are uploaded to wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com which is located in US.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Navigate to Device > Setup > WildFire.
Navigate to the General Settings sections.
Click the General Settings edit icon.
Change the WildFire Public Cloud to your appropriate region.

Default Value:

wildfire.paloaltonetworks.com

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/17915

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b.

Plugin: Palo_Alto

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