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Palo Alto Networks Attack Surface Rules API

Attack surface rule configuration and management.

Palo Alto Networks Attack Surface Rules API is one of 820 APIs that Palo Alto Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include AttackSurfaceRules. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api-{fqdn}/public_api/v1, https://api.stratacloud.paloaltonetworks.com/aiops/bpa/v1.

2 operations 2 paths 4 schemas 2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Palo Alto Networks Attack Surface Rules API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as x-xdr-hmac-v2 (xpanseAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (oauth2Bearer).

  • xpanseAuth — Cortex Xpanse uses a custom HMAC-SHA256 authentication scheme with RBAC API key pairs. Include four headers: x-xdr-auth-id (API key ID), x-xdr-nonce (64-charac…
  • oauth2Bearer — OAuth 2.0 Bearer token for SASE platform authentication. Obtain using the clientcredentials grant with your SASE service account client ID and client secret.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

AttackSurfaceRules 2

Attack surface rule configuration and management.

POST
/attack_surface_rules/get_attack_surface_rules
Palo Alto Networks Get Attack Surface Rules
getAttackSurfaceRules body → 200400401
POST
/attack_surface_rules/update_attack_surface_rule
Palo Alto Networks Update Attack Surface Rule
updateAttackSurfaceRule body → 200400401404

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AttackSurfaceRule (10 properties), Filter (3 properties), SortOrder (2 properties), ErrorResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

AttackSurfaceRule
object
An attack surface rule defining criteria for classifying internet exposures as incidents.
10 properties
ErrorResponse
object
1 property
Filter
object
A filter criterion for querying Xpanse resources.
3 properties 3 required
SortOrder
object
Sorting specification for result sets.
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

palo-alto-networks-attacksurfacerules-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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