Best practices in firewall management
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Best Practices in Firewall Management - Sabu Thaliyath
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Introduction to Firewall
• In the front of perimeter-level defence
• Works mostly on ports and IP addresses
Be Specific
•Default policy must be Deny All
•Be specific in firewall rules i.e • Open only the port you need open
• Allow only the IPs that you need to give access to
Expiry date
• Keep an expiry date for user requested rules
• Remind the user when expiry date is nearing
Compliment firewall
• Compliment the firewall with other security products – Intrusion Prevention System, Endpoint Security