{"id":39346,"date":"2017-07-27T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=39346"},"modified":"2017-07-27T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:04:10","slug":"epic-app-id-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/epic-app-id-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic App-ID Is Now Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through cooperation with Epic and some customer volunteers, we are happy to announce a new Epic App-ID that will facilitate the safe enablement of Epic application traffic on healthcare provider networks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epic.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Epic<\/a> is an electronic medical record (EMR) application used by many healthcare providers to manage patient records.<\/p>\n<p>Customers need to apply the content update for July 18, 2017, or later for the Epic App-ID to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the existence of the Epic App-ID, Palo Alto Networks firewalls categorized Epic CF traffic as \"unknown TCP.\"\u00a0 Epic CF traffic doesn\u2019t run on a standard port, either. With the Epic App-ID, Epic CF traffic is automatically identified regardless of port. It\u2019s now a lot easier for customers to safely enable Epic, without the need to create port-based policies or allow unknown TCP traffic on a set of destination ports.<\/p>\n<p><em>Quick Tip \u2013 For the highest performance of your Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall, make sure there\u2019s minimal traffic categorized as \u201cunknown TCP.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Epic App-ID release on the <a href=\"https:\/\/live.paloaltonetworks.com\/t5\/Management-Articles\/Release-of-the-Epic-App-ID\/ta-p\/159047\">Epic App-ID Live page<\/a> and in our release notes for the July 18 content update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic APP-ID is now live! Learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":20592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[59],"coauthors":[1355],"class_list":["post-39346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","tag-app-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/blog-generic-banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39349,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39346\/revisions\/39349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39346"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=39346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}