paloaltonetworks
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedA security-focused crawler used by Palo Alto Networks to scan web assets for vulnerabilities, threat intelligence, and security posture assessment. Operated by Palo Alto Networks.
What is paloaltonetworks?
The Palo Alto Networks bot is an automated security scanner operated by the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks. It is primarily utilized within their security platforms, such as Cortex and Prisma, to analyze web traffic and identify potential security risks or misconfigurations. By proactively scanning web properties, it helps organizations detect vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by malicious actors.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
This bot crawls websites to perform security audits and threat analysis, ensuring that web assets comply with modern security standards. It collects data to populate threat intelligence databases and provide actionable insights to security operations centers. Site owners can verify this bot by checking that the source IP addresses originate from Palo Alto Networks' known infrastructure ranges and by reviewing the bot's behavior against standard security scanning patterns.
IP ranges
Requests from paloaltonetworks originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow paloaltonetworks
Add a Disallow rule for paloaltonetworks in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block paloaltonetworks from crawling your entire site User-agent: paloaltonetworks Disallow: / # Allow paloaltonetworks full access User-agent: paloaltonetworks Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows paloaltonetworks. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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