topic Re: Default zone protection behaviour in General Topics

Default zone protection behaviour

bdaussin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:02:56 GMT

Hi all,

Here is a small question regarding zone protection profile :smileycool:

What happens if we do not define any zone protection profile to a specific zone ? Is the default behaviour to allow all types of potential threaths ( ICMP flood, fragmentation and so on ... ) or to deny them ?

Thanks for your help.

Re: Default zone protection behaviour

friento — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:03:14 GMT

It's a firewall device so my guest is Deny. Although it won't show on your log if you don't have explicit deny rule in bottom.

Re: Default zone protection behaviour

Retired Member — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:02:02 GMT

If no zone protection is defined on a zone then PA would not apply any of the protection. So all would not automatically deny ICMP/UDP floods, etc. However your security rules will still apply.

-Richard

Re: Default zone protection behaviour

bdaussin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:07:09 GMT

Ok, thanks for your answer.

Regards,

Re: Default zone protection behaviour

friento — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:13:14 GMT

@Richard .. are you saying that traffic will be allow?

Protection means AV, IPS , Anti Malware and such right?

Re: Default zone protection behaviour

fredallee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:57:46 GMT

No, the zone protection is not content inspection like AV, IPS, etc. The zone protection profiles are specific to SYN, ICMP, UDP, and other IP flooding attacks as well as host sweeps and port scan type protections.

Alfred