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Depending on your subscription level, each feed and Threat Insight policy in the Default Global Policy comes with a default action. 


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titleRecommended Actions

New feed recommendations: It is recommended that you do the following regarding the new feeds:

  • Add Suspicious Domains with one of the policy actions to Block.
  • Add Suspicious Lookalikes with one of the policy actions to  Block.
  • Add Suspicious NOED with one of the policy actions to  Block.

The following table includes the list of feeds that we will be retiring:

Feed

RPZ Name

Retirement Date

Reason

Bot-IP

bot-ip.rpz.infoblox.local

4/1/2023

IP addresses are frequently reused for multiple sites, and blocking the ones associated with such systems ran the high risk of inadvertent blocking (I.E. False Positive). Many indicators here could be blocked in other ways, so the source is blocked in other similar feeds, making this redundant.

Spambot-IP

spambot-ip.rpz.infoblox.local

4/1/2023

ExploitKit_IP

exploitkit-ip.rpz.infoblox.local

June 2023

Ext_ExploitKit_IP

ext-exploitkit-ip.rpz.infoblox.local

June 2023

Ext_TOR_Exit_Node_IP 

ext-tor-exit-node-ip.rpz.infoblox.local

June 2023

NCCIC_Host

nccic-host.rpz.infoblox.local

June 2023

The curation process for these feeds (I.E. removing false positives) frequently left these feeds empty. The ones that remained are present in other feeds, making these feeds redundant.

NCCIC_IP

nccic-ip.rpz.infoblox.local

June 2023


As these feeds are being retired, NIOS platforms will no longer be able to download them.  This may present itself as a problem with the Zone transfer. To avoid this issue, these feeds should be removed as soon as possible. As they have been empty for a long time, there will be no negative effect on the organization’s security posture. This only affects NIOS platforms using these RPZ feeds, as cloud-based configurations are updated automatically.  


Note
titleNote

Ensure that you understand the ramification when overriding the default action for any threat feeds and Threat Insight rules before you do so.

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