Chapter 8 About Security Policies; About Security Policies - Watchguard V10 User Manual

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About Security

The purpose of a Firebox Vclass appliance is to deter-

mine whether data is to be passed or blocked and, if

passed, what action will be taken with the data. The

set of rules by which data is evaluated and managed is

called a security policy.

Every security policy operates in a similar way: it lists

qualifications that the Firebox Vclass appliance uses as

it analyzes the initial packets of a new stream of data.

The sources of data can be your internal network or

any external networks including the Internet. Then, if

the packets match the traffic specifications of a given

policy, the appliance can take several types of actions:

firewall actions, proxy actions, IPSec actions (involv-

ing manual-key or automatic-key encryption and

authentication), a variety of NAT/load-balancing

actions, and QoS actions.

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