Firewall

Default protection profiles

 

 

Default protection profiles

The FortiGate unit comes preconfigured with four protection profiles.

Strict

To apply maximum protection to HTTP, FTP, IMAP, POP3, and SMTP traffic.

 

You may not wish to use the strict protection profile under normal

 

circumstances but it is available if you have extreme problems with viruses

 

and require maximum screening.

Web

To apply virus scanning and web content blocking to HTTP traffic. You can

 

add this protection profile to firewall policies that control HTTP traffic.

Unfiltered

To apply no scanning, blocking or IPS. Use the unfiltered content profile if

 

you do not want to apply content protection to content traffic. You can add

 

this protection profile to firewall policies for connections between highly

 

trusted or highly secure networks where content does not need to be

 

protected.

Protection profile options

Figure 105:Adding a protection profile

You can configure the following options when creating or editing a protection profile.

Profile Name

Enter a name for the profile. (New profiles only.)

Anti-Virus

See “Configuring antivirus options” on page 224.

Web Filtering

See “Configuring web filtering options” on page 225.

Web Category Filtering

See “Configuring web category filtering options” on page 225.

Spam Filtering

See “Configuring spam filtering options” on page 226.

IPS

See “Configuring IPS options” on page 227.

Content Archive

See “Configuring content archive options” on page 227.

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100A specifications

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