Lightspeed to PAN-DB Category Mapping
By Jon Robinson | Published September 1, 2016 | Updated January 26, 2024The following is a breakdown of Lightspeed URL categories and their Palo Alto Networks PAN-DB equivalent.
In some cases PAN-DB may not have a matching category, but this can usually be supplemented with applications instead of URL’s. For example, PAN-DB doesn’t have a photography category, but has an application subcategory for photo-video that can be reviewed and limited in availability. In this way, you can generally achieve the desired level of filtering equivalent to that of Lightspeed.
Hopefully this will be helpful when migrating or converting a Lightspeed config to Palo Alto Networks.
| Lightspeed URL Categories | PAN-DB URL Categories |
|---|---|
| access-denied | No direct URL category |
| ads | Web-Advertisements |
| adult | adult |
| adult.art | adult |
| adult.bodyart | adult |
| adult.games | adult |
| adult.language | adult |
| alcohol | alcohol-and-tobacco |
| audio-video | streaming-media or application policy |
| automobile | No direct URL category |
| business | business-and-economy |
| business.construction | business-and-economy |
| business.finance | business-and-economy |
| business.jobs | business-and-economy |
| business.manufacturing | business-and-economy |
| business.real_estate | business-and-economy |
| computers | computer-and-internet-info |
| computers.consumer_electronics | computer-and-internet-info |
| computers.filehosting | shareware-and-freeware |
| directory | No direct URL category |
| drugs | abused-drugs |
| education | See subcategories below |
| education.arts | entertainment-and-arts |
| education.games | games |
| education.history | reference-and-research |
| education.literature | entertainment-and-arts |
| education.media | entertainment-and-arts and training-and-tools |
| education.music | entertainment-and-arts |
| education.science | reference-and-research and training-and-tools |
| education.sex | sex-education |
| education.social_science | reference-and-research and training-and-tools |
| entertainment | entertainment-and-arts |
| entertainment.radio_and_tv | entertainment-and-arts |
| expired | parked |
| family | No direct URL category |
| family.food | society |
| family.health | health-and-medicine |
| family.religion | religion |
| forums | recreation-and-hobbies |
| forums.blogs | personal-sites-and-blogs |
| forums.dating | dating |
| forums.im | Covered by application policy |
| forums.mail | web-based-email |
| forums.newsgroups | news |
| forums.p2p | peer-to-peer |
| forums.personals | personal-sites-and-blogs |
| forums.social_networking | social-networking and application policy |
| gambling | gambling |
| games | games |
| general | No direct URL category |
| government | government |
| ham | Partially covered by web-based-email |
| hobby | recreation-and-hobbies |
| humor | entertainment-and-arts |
| kids_and_teens | No direct URL category |
| kids_and_teens.animals | No direct URL category |
| kids_and_teens.chat | No direct URL category |
| law | legal |
| local-allow | Custom URL categories |
| local-block | Custom URL categories |
| microsoft | No direct URL category |
| music | music and application policy |
| news | news |
| offensive | questionable |
| parked | parked |
| photography | No direct URL category |
| plagarism | No direct URL category |
| porn | adult |
| porn.illicit | adult |
| search | search-engines |
| security | computer-and-internet-info |
| security.hacking | hacking |
| security.nettools | proxy-avoidance-and-anonymizers and application policy |
| security.phishing | phishing |
| security.potentially_unwanted_applications | malware |
| security.proxy | proxy-avoidance-and-anonymizers |
| security.spyware | malware |
| security.test | No direct URL category |
| security.virus | malware |
| security.virus_ignore | No direct URL category |
| security.warez | peer-to-peer and shareware-and-freeware |
| security.malware | malware |
| Security.Shorteners | No direct URL category |
| shopping | shopping |
| shopping.auctions | shopping |
| shopping.office_supplies | shopping |
| shopping.spam | covered by malware and phishing |
| society | society |
| society.crime | society |
| society.politics | society |
| spam | covered by malware and phishing |
| sports | sports |
| sports.fantasy | sports |
| sports.martial_arts | sports |
| sports.youth | sports |
| suspicious | malware |
| suspicious.script | malware |
| travel | travel |
| violence | questionable |
| violence.hate | hate-and-racism |
| weapons | weapons |
| world | Covered by security policy (Built in regional objects, i.e US, Russia, etc. that can be controlled on a very granular level. For example, you can allow all regions to reach your website, but apply QoS, DoS protection, and stricter threat prevention policies just to foreign countries) |
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