New and modified App-IDs are delivered to the firewall
as part of
Applications
and Threat Content Updates. While new and modified App-IDs
enable the firewall to enforce your security policy with ever-increasing precision,
changes in security policy enforcement that can occur when a content update
release is installed can impact application availability. For this
reason, you will need to think about how to best deploy content
updates so that you can get the latest threat prevention as it’s
made available, and adjust your security policy to best leverage
new and modified App-IDs.
The following options enable you to assess the impact of new
App-IDs on existing policy enforcement, disable (and enable) App-IDs,
and seamlessly update policy rules to secure and enforce newly-identified
applications:
