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Using Firewall Policies to Auto-Block Rogue Hosts on External Networks

August 11, 2017 By Teri Radichel

Automatically preventing all traffic from hosts that attempt to connect to blocked ports can help prevent further malicious actions from those IP addresses as explained in Auto-Blocking Suspicious Hosts Found in Traffic Logs. After posting that article, one WatchGuard customer sent me a note about using the auto-block feature to help prevent DDoS attacks. By reducing the … [Read more...]

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