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Firewall Control Proxy

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

The component that controls a firewall’s handling of a call. The firewall control proxy can instruct the firewall to open specific ports that are needed by a call, and direct the firewall to close these ports at call termination.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Network95%rule-basedr:entity.network.gear.v1
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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Firewall Control Proxy's
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