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    Overriding or Reverting a Security Policy Rule

    The default security rules—interzone-default and intrazone-default—have predefined settings that you can override on a firewall or on Panorama. If a firewall receives the default rules from a device group, you can also override the device group settings. The firewall or virtual system where you perform the override stores a local version of the rule in its configuration. The settings you can override are a subset of the full set (the following table lists the subset for security rules). For details on the default security rules, see Policies > Security.
    To override a rule, select PoliciesSecurity on a firewall or PoliciesSecurityDefault Rules on Panorama. The Name column displays the inheritance icon (
    ) for rules you can override. Select the rule, click Override, and edit the settings in the following table.
    To revert an overridden rule to its predefined settings or to the settings pushed from a Panorama device group, select PoliciesSecurity on a firewall or PoliciesSecurityDefault Rules on Panorama. The Name column displays the override icon (
    ) for rules that have overridden values. Select the rule, click Revert, and click Yes to confirm the operation.
    Fields to Override a Default Security Rule
    Description
    General Tab
    Name
    The Name that identifies the rule is read-only; you cannot override it.
    Rule Type
    The Rule Type is read-only; you cannot override it.
    Description
    The Description is read-only; you cannot override it.
    Tag
    Select Tags from the drop-down.
    A policy tag is a keyword or phrase that enables you to sort or filter policies. This is useful when you have defined many policies and want to view those that are tagged with a particular keyword. For example, you might want to tag certain security policies with Inbound to DMZ, tag specific decryption policies with the words Decrypt or No-decrypt, or use the name of a specific data center for policies associated with that location.
    Actions Tab
    Action Setting
    Select the appropriate Action for traffic that matches the rule.
    • Allow—(default) Allows the traffic.
    • Deny—Blocks traffic and enforces the default Deny Action that is defined for the application that the firewall is denying. To view the deny action that is defined by default for an application, view the application details in ObjectsApplications.
    • Drop—Silently drops the application. The firewall does not send a TCP reset message to the host or application.
    • Reset client—Sends a TCP reset message to the client-side device.
    • Reset server—Sends a TCP reset message to the server-side device.
    • Reset both—Sends a TCP reset message to both the client-side and server-side devices.
    Profile Setting
    Profile Type—Assign profiles or profile groups to the security rule:
    • To specify the checking that the default security profiles perform, select Profiles and then select one or more of the individual Antivirus, Vulnerability Protection, Anti-Spyware, URL Filtering, File Blocking, Data Filtering, WildFire Analysis, SCTP Protection, and Mobile Network Protection profiles.
    • To assign a profile group rather than individual profiles, select Group and then select a Group Profile from the drop-down.
    • To define new profiles ( Objects > Security Profiles) or profile groups, click New in the drop-down for the corresponding profile or group profile.
    Log Setting
    Specify any combination of the following options:
    • Log Forwarding—To forward the local traffic log and threat log entries to remote destinations, such as Panorama and syslog servers, select a Log Forwarding profile from the drop-down. Security profiles determine the generation of Threat log entries. To define a new Log Forwarding profile, select Profile in the drop-down (see Objects > Log Forwarding).
    • To generate entries in the local traffic log for traffic that matches this rule, select the following options:
      • Log at Session Start—Generates a traffic log entry for the start of a session (selected by default).
      • Log at Session End—Generates a traffic log entry for the end of a session (cleared by default).
        If you configure the firewall to include session start or session end entries in the Traffic log, it will also include drop and deny entries.

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