Block attacker infrastructure at the network layer before scans, exploits, or malicious C2 activities can execute—stopping evasive threats while eliminating the operational burden of legacy blocklists.
Dynamic attacker tactics expose traditional network blind spots
Modern threat actors actively manipulate shared infrastructure and direct-to-IP connections to evade detection and overwhelm security teams relying on static defenses
Attacks hide behind shifting infrastructure
Attacks hide behind shifting infrastructure
Adversaries weaponize automated scanning and proxy networks to obscure brute-force attacks, vulnerability probing and exploitation within trusted traffic.
New Phone-Home Tactics Sidestep Existing Controls
New Phone-Home Tactics Sidestep Existing Controls
Modern malware connects directly to IP addresses for C2 activity, completely circumventing traditional corporate DNS security and web filtering.
Static Feeds Lag Behind Dynamic Threat Landscapes
Static Feeds Lag Behind Dynamic Threat Landscapes
Blocklists suffer enforcement lag, are restricted by device capacity and lack context — draining resources with manual updates and false positives.
SOLUTIONS
Deny attackers access at the network layer with Precision AI
Advanced IP Defense provides a proactive, inline guardrail that extends threat prevention to the network layer. By denying access based on where attackers operate across the internet, it blocks adversary infrastructure before scans, exploits or malicious activities can execute — stopping novel, evasive threats while eliminating the heavy operational burden of legacy blocklists.
Real-time inline infrastructure blocking
Evaluates every IP address inline against live global threat intelligence to block connection attempts to active attacker infrastructure before a payload can ever be delivered.
Zero trust guardrails against evasion
Validates every outbound IP session to identify direct-to-IP evasion even if they’re inside public clouds or CDNs.
Contextual attack surface reduction
Provides granular context to enable security teams to set risk-based policies, block malicious connections, minimize exposure and reduce SOC alert fatigue.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Enforce real-time, inline prevention against attacker infrastructure
Modernize legacy blocklists with dynamic cloud telemetry, zero trust session matching, 40+ attribute profiling and cloud-delivered EDL scale to eliminate network blind spots without operational burden.
Live intelligence powered by global scale and Unit 42 research
Collects real-time threat telemetry across more than 75,000 global customer deployments, 1,600 research feeds and elite Unit 42® threat intelligence to identify active attacker infrastructure as it emerges across the web.
Zero trust engine combats direct-to-IP, phone-home connections
Matches every outbound IP request against a valid DNS resolution in real time. This automated validation detects and blocks evasive direct-to-IP C2 traffic before malware can establish hidden phone-home sessions.
Multiattribute profiling for dynamic and granular access policies
Continuously monitors every IP connection across 40+ security attributes. Rich contextual data enables security teams to automate precise, risk-based access decisions and eliminate reliance on static IP lists.
Enforce targeted policies to minimize external attack exposure
Allows security teams to create custom, risk-based policies that reduce organizational exposure — such as blocking data center servers from initiating connections to residential or mobile ISP ranges.
Offloads External Dynamic List (EDL) hosting directly to the cloud. This architecture enables unlimited list capacity while removing local hardware memory limitations and manual feed maintenance.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about how Advanced IP Defense stops evasive attacker infrastructure, replaces static blocklists and reduces SOC overhead.
Advanced IP Defense screens out high-risk source networks — including open proxies, anonymizers and weaponized consumer networks — before traffic reaches your perimeter entry points. By blocking adversary infrastructure inline at the network layer, it sharply reduces external exposure and stops automated scanning, brute-force attacks and exploitation attempts before they execute.
Threat actors often host command-and-control servers on shared public clouds and use direct-to-IP connections to bypass DNS security and web filtering. Advanced IP Defense uses a zero trust IP correlation engine to verify connection intent against DNS history in real time, terminating stealthy C2 sessions at the network layer without disrupting trusted cloud services.
Advanced IP Defense neutralizes malicious activity prevalent in 67% of networks and closes a 52% threat intelligence blind spot — capturing direct-to-IP threats unique to Palo Alto Networks that third-party feeds miss. By replacing manual blocklists that average a 20-day enforcement lag, it automates threat research and list management — eliminating local firewall memory constraints and freeing SecOps from chasing false positives.
Advanced IP Defense offloads External Dynamic List (EDL) hosting directly to the cloud. This cloud-delivered architecture eliminates local firewall memory constraints and hardware capacity limits, allowing security teams to enforce massive global threat intelligence feeds inline without degrading network performance.
No. Advanced IP Defense enhances threat research, intelligence updates and list management. By replacing static, manual blocklists with a dynamic cloud-delivered enforcement layer, it eliminates the operational burden of manually hosting IP feeds, updating firewall rules and constantly chasing false positives.
