User guide

Firewall Policies
112 Firebox X Edge e-Series
About adding policies to your Firebox
The Firebox includes many pre-configured packet filters and proxies that you can add to your configuration.
For example, if you want a packet filter for all Telnet traffic, you add a pre-defined Telnet policy that you can
modify for your needs. You can also make a custom policy for which you set the ports, protocols, and other
parameters.
When you configure your Firebox X Edge using the Quick Setup Wizard, the Edge allows only limited outgoing
connectivity. If you have more software applications and network traffic for the Edge to examine, you must:
 Configure the policies on the Edge to let necessary traffic through
 Set the approved hosts and properties for each policy
 Balance the requirement to protect your network against the requirements of your users to get access
to external resources
We recommend that you set limits on outgoing access when you configure your Firebox.
Throughout WatchGuard documentation, we refer to both packet filters and proxies as policies.
Unless we tell you differently, information on policies refers to both packet filters and proxies.