firewall rule

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Firewall rules examine the control information in individual packets. The rules either block or allow those packets based on rules that are defined on these pages. Firewall rules are assigned directly to computers or to policies that are in turn assigned to a computer or collection of computers.

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Entity Type

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

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unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: firewall rules
possessive: firewall rule's
pluralpossessive: firewall rules'

Framework definitions

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FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →

§1: Firewall rules examine the control information in individual packets. The rules either block or allow those packets based on rules that are defined on these pages. Firewall rules are assigned directly to computers or to policies that are in turn assigned to a computer or collection of computers.

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