Zoom X5V 4.1 Main Firewall Features, Protection Policy

4.1 Main Firewall Features

The X5v’s (DoS) Denial of Service firewall features are grouped together in the top section, under Advanced Options. These DoS features mean that the X5v provides protection from a potentially devastating attack on your computer. Such attacks can overwhelm and shut down a computer or a server. The X5v’s DoS features are grouped together as follows:

•Protection Policy

•Hacker Log

•Service Filtering.

Protection Policy

Click the Protection Policy link to display the basic and advanced protections. Protection policies provide a defense from the most common methods of tampering with the security of a network. All the defense mechanisms listed below are enabled by default.

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