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Defense Against Threats

Content security profiles can be referenced in security policies to protect intranet servers and users against threats.

An enterprise deploys the FW as a security gateway at the network border. The requirements are as follows:
  • Protect intranet servers that provide services for Internet users.

  • Protect intranet users who access the Internet and transfer files.

According to the preceding requirements, the following security policies are configured:

No.

Description

Source Zone

Destination Zone

Source IP Address

Destination IP Address

Content Security

Action

1

Protect intranet servers that provide services for Internet users.

any

dmz

any

Internal server address

Antivirus: detects and handles viruses in files transmitted to the intranet server to prevent virus attacks on the intranet server.

Intrusion prevention: detects intrusions in the traffic that accesses the intranet server to defend against intrusions on the intranet server.

File blocking: detects the types of files transmitted to the intranet server to prevent virus infection on the intranet server.

APT defense: sends files with unknown threats to the sandbox for inspection to defend against APT attacks on the intranet server.

Permit

2

Protect intranet users who access the Internet and transfer files.

trust

untrust

IP address of the intranet users

any

URL filtering: filters websites accessed by intranet users to filter out illegal and malicious websites to reduce the risk of virus infection and attacks.

Antivirus: detects and handles viruses in files downloaded from the Internet to prevent virus attacks.

Intrusion prevention: detects intrusions for the access from intranet users to the Internet.

File blocking: checks the types of files uploaded to the Internet or downloaded from the Internet to prevent virus infection.

APT defense: sends files with unknown threats to the sandbox for inspection to defend against APT attacks.

Permit

3

Deny the traffic that does not match any of the preceding security policy rules.

any

any

any

any

any

Deny

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