Security policies
Security policies will define which session matches with one or more rules in a set and the actions the FortiGate unit will perform. The list of elements that a FortiGate will check includes:
- Source Interface/Zone
- Source Address
- Destination Interface/Zone
- Destination Address
- Schedule and time of the session's initiation
- Service and the packet's port numbers
- UTM profiles
Based on the policies, a packet can be accepted or denied. Security policies are managed by navigating to the Policy | Policy | Policy menu. In the following screenshot we can see the screen used to edit a security policy:
After we have defined a firewall policy, it will ...
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