How to allow accessing blocked countries’ URL in paloalto firewall

Situation: The company has a policy blocking their internal users to access foreign websites in the Palo Alto firewall. Now, they want to allow accessing a foreign websites.

Here is how.

  1. Go to Objects>Custom Objects>URL Category to create a object, Outsideweb in our example.
  2. Add the website, *.sendibt3.com in our example.

3. Go to Policies>Security.

4. Create policy, Trusted to internet 1 in out example and make sure it is before the Outbound Blocked Countries policy.

5. In Security Policy Rule>Service/URL Category, add the new object, Outsideweb.

6. Click OK and send commit to save the settings.

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Bob Lin

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