Creating New Profiles; Procedure To Create A New Profile - ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL USG 300 User Manual

Chapter 34 IDP
Table 162 Configuration > Anti-X > IDP > Profile (continued)
LABEL
Name
Base Profile

34.5 Creating New Profiles

You may want to create a new profile if not all signatures in a base profile are
applicable to your network. In this case you should disable non-applicable
signatures so as to improve ZyWALL IDP processing efficiency.
You may also find that certain signatures are triggering too many false positives or
false negatives. A false positive is when valid traffic is flagged as an attack. A false
negative is when invalid traffic is wrongly allowed to pass through the ZyWALL. As
each network is different, false positives and false negatives are common on initial
IDP deployment.
You could create a new 'monitor profile' that creates logs but all actions are
disabled. Observe the logs over time and try to eliminate the causes of the false
alarms. When you're satisfied that they have been reduced to an acceptable level,
you could then create an 'inline profile' whereby you configure appropriate actions
to be taken when a packet matches a signature.

34.5.1 Procedure To Create a New Profile

To create a new profile:
Click the Add icon in the Configuration > Anti-X > IDP > Profile screen to
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display a pop-up screen allowing you to choose a base profile.
Select a base profile (see
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profile details screen.
Note: If Internet Explorer opens a warning screen about a script making Internet
Explorer run slowly and the computer maybe becoming unresponsive, just click
No to continue.
Type a new profile name
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Enable or disable individual signatures.
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Edit the default log options and actions.
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DESCRIPTION
This is the name of the profile you created.
This is the base profile from which the profile was created.
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