Creating Palo Alto Networks Response Action Rules

Role Availability Read-Only Investigator Analyst Manager

Use the BlueApp for Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to access the Palo Alto Networks response actions In USM Anywhere you can execute an action from alarms, events, and vulnerabilities to run a scan, get forensic information, or execute a response for a configured BlueApp., which enable you to quickly respond to threats identified by USM Anywhere. You can create response action rules in USM Anywhere that automatically trigger when alarms Alarms provide notification of an event or sequence of events that require attention or investigation. or events Any traffic or data exchange detected by LevelBlue products through a sensor or external devices such as a firewall. match the criteria that you specify. For example, you might create a rule where USM Anywhere automatically sends the host information for malware infections that it identifies to the connected Palo Alto Networks device as a request to tag the host for policy enforcement.

Note: All Group and Tag names will default to lowercase in USM Anywhere to avoid any potential confusion over letter casing.

After you create a rule, new events or alarms that match the rule will trigger the Palo Alto Networks action to tag to the associated source or the destination host. The rule does not trigger for your existing alarms or events.

You can create a new rule in one of two ways:

  • From an Applied Response Action: You can automatically create a rule using the response action that you apply to an existing alarm or event. This makes it easy to set the matching conditions for the rule based on the existing item and use the same settings that you applied to that item.

    In the confirmation dialog box, click Create rule for similar alarms or Create rule for similar events.

    You can create a rule to launch a Palo Alto response action for similar alarms

  • From the Rules page: The Rules page provides access to all of your orchestration rules. The Orchestration Rules list includes suppression rules, alarm rules, event rules, filtering rules, notification rules, and response action rules. You can create new rules using the specific matching conditions that you define, as well as edit, delete, and enable or disable rules. See Orchestration Rules for more information about managing orchestration rules.

    In the left navigation menu, go to Settings > Rules > Orchestration Rules. Then click Create Orchestration Rule > Response Action Rule to define the new rule.

    Create a new response action rule

To define a new Palo Alto Networks response action rule

  1. Enter a name for the rule.

  2. For the Action, select the action you want to launch.

    You can launch an action to tag the destination host or source for an alarm or an event.

  3. Enter the Palo Alto Networks Tag Name that you want to apply to the host.

    Set options to launch the Palo Alto Networks action for the rule

  4. At the bottom of the dialog box, set the rule condition parameters to specify the criteria for a matching alarm or event to trigger the rule.

    Set the matching conditions for triggering the rule

    • This section provides suggested property/value pairs from the selected alarm or event that you can use as conditions for the rule. Click the icon to delete the items that you do not want to include in the matching conditions. You can also add other conditions that are not suggested.
    • If you create the rule from the Rules page, you must use the Add Condition and Add Group functions to define the property/value pairs that you want to use as conditions for the rule.
    • At the bottom of the dialog box, click More to display the optional multiple occurrence and window-length parameters.
  5. Click Save Rule.