Anti-Malware Profiles

Anti-malware profiles protect against emerging security threats. This profile can be used by all policies to provide protection from malware and to stop other threats to your networks. Once the Global Anti-Malware security profile is enabled in a policy, network-connection scans ensure web-based content is malware free.

Anti-malware profiles identify which applications are inspected for malware and the action taken when malware is detected. The default profile inspects all of the listed protocol decoders for malware and takes the action determined by the policy, depending on the type of malware detected.

You can optionally enable Cloud Scan for cloud-based malware scanning of IPv4 traffic. Enabling Cloud Scan redirects IPv4 traffic to the Web Cloud Scan server for malware analysis. The conventional anti-malware scanner scans IPv6 traffic.

You can optionally enable Smart Scan for enhanced malware scanning. Smart Scan is a next-generation, cloud-based protection solution. At the core of this solution is an advanced scanning architecture that leverages the Smart Scan server to perform threat scanning of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic using signatures that are stored in the cloud. Conventional on-box scanning is used when Smart Scan is not enabled or if Smart Scan cannot scan an object.

Enabling Smart Scan has performance benefits and enhances security since Smart Scan server patterns are updated frequently.

Starting with Cloud Edge 5.6 (with the exception of Cloud Edge 6.0), you can enable Predictive Machine Learning scans, which provide advanced scanning, for web traffic.

If both Smart Scan and Predictive Machine learning are enabled, web traffic will be scanned only by Predictive Machine Learning; the Smart Scan function is ignored.