PaloAltoNetworks / PaloAltoNetworks/pan-os-python

Add support for Security Profiles

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I am unable to create a complete firewall security policy solely via pan-os-python because it is
missing support for Security Profiles. The SDK supports Profile Groups but this is not enough to
build a comprehensive policy with the SDK.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to have the ability to create, modify, and delete all types of Security Profiles:

  • Vulnerability
  • Antivirus
  • Anti-spyware
  • URL-filtering
  • File blocking
  • Data filtering
  • Wildfire

There should be individual classes for all these types of profiles under panos.objects

Describe alternatives you've considered

The current alternatives are to pre-create the required objects manually (which ruins
the whole idea of having and managing policy-as-a-code), or to use XML API "patches" (which
ruins the elegance of object-oriented programming with the SDK).

Additional context

We are building a next-gen risk-based web-filtering policy for our firm. It leverages a lot of PAN-OS/pan-os-python
features (amongst others) such as Security and Decryption rules, Application Groups and Filters, Custom URL categories,
Tags, EDLs and Profile Groups. The latter one operates with some 15 different individual Security Profiles.

The policy is being designed to be portable so that we were able to deploy it to different device groups and
different Panorama instances as well as standalone firewalls. Thus, a need for the manual creation of any policy elements (such as Security Profiles) becomes a significant shortcoming of the solution.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by inspecting the existing Profile Group support under panos.objects and the SDK's patterns for managing PAN-OS objects. Define the scope for individual classes covering Vulnerability, Antivirus, Anti-spyware, URL-filtering, File blocking, Data filtering, and Wildfire profiles; done means each can be created, modified, and deleted through the SDK.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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