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Submitted by satoshi_tk· Apr 18, 2026Operate

Question

A Palo Alto Networks firewall is being targeted by an NTP Amplification attack and is being flooded with tens thousands of bogus UDP connections per second to a single destination IP address and post. Which option when enabled with the correction threshold would mitigate this attack without dropping legitirnate traffic to other hosts insides the network?

Options

  • AZone Protection Policy with UDP Flood Protection
  • BQoS Policy to throttle traffic below maximum limit
  • CSecurity Policy rule to deny trafic to the IP address and port that is under attack
  • DClassified DoS Protection Policy using destination IP only with a Protect action

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#DoS Protection#NTP Amplification#UDP Flood#Security Mitigation
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