: Apply Security Policies to the VM-Series Firewall
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Apply Security Policies to the VM-Series Firewall

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Apply Security Policies to the VM-Series Firewall

Now that you have created the steering rules on Panorama and pushed them to the NSX-V Manager, you can now use Panorama for centrally administering policies on the VM-Series firewalls.
To manage centralized policy, attach the dynamic address group as a source or destination address in security policy and push it to the firewalls; the firewalls can dynamically retrieve the IP addresses of the virtual machines that are included in each security group to enforce compliance for traffic that originates from or is destined to the virtual machines in the specified group.
  1. Log in to Panorama.
  2. (
    Operations-centric deployments only
    ) Create dynamic-address groups.
    Skip this step for security-centric deployments. If you are performing a security-centric deployment, you have already created dynamic-address groups.
    After creating the security redirection rules on the NSX-V Manager, the names of the security groups that are referenced in security policy will be available on Panorama.
    Shared dynamic address groups are not supported on the VM-Series for VMware NSX-V.
    1. Select
      Objects
      Address Groups
      .
    2. Select the Device Group you created for managing your VM-Series on NSX-V firewall from the
      Device Group
      drop-down.
    3. Click
      Add
      and enter a
      Name
      and
      Description
      for the dynamic address group.
    4. Select
      Type
      as
      Dynamic
      .
    5. Add Match Criteria to your dynamic address group.
      Some browser extensions may block API calls between Panorama and NSX-V which prevents Panorama from receiving match criteria. If Panorama displays no match criteria and you are using browser extensions, disable the extensions and Synchronize Dynamic Objects to populate the tags available to Panorama.
    6. Click
      Add Match Criteria
      .
    7. Select the
      And
      or
      Or
      operator and click the plus (+) icon next to the security group name to add it to the dynamic address group.
      The security groups that display in the match criteria dialog are derived from the groups you defined on the Distributed Firewall Partner Security Services or on the Service Composer on the NSX-V Manager. Only the security groups that are referenced in the security policies and from which traffic is redirected to the VM-Series firewall are available here.
    8. Click
      OK
      .
    9. Repeat these steps to create the appropriate number of dynamic address groups required for your deployment.
    10. Commit
      your changes.
  3. Create security policy rules.
    1. Select
      Policies
      Security
      Prerules
      .
    2. Select the
      Device Group
      that you created for managing the VM-Series firewalls for NSX-V in Register the VM-Series Firewall as a Service on the NSX-V Manager.
    3. Click
      Add
      and enter a
      Name
      and a
      Description
      for the rule. In this example, the security rule allows all traffic between the WebFrontEnd servers and the Application servers.
    4. Select the
      Source Zone
      and
      Destination Zone
      . The zone name must be the same in both columns.
    5. For the
      Source Address
      and
      Destination Address
      , select or type in an address, address group or region. In this example, we select an address group, the Dynamic address group you created previously.
    6. Select the
      Application
      to allow. In this example, we create an
      Application Group
      that includes a static group of specific applications that are grouped together.
      1. Click
        Add
        and select
        New Application Group
        .
      2. Click
        Add
        to select the application to include in the group. In this example, we select the following:
      3. Click
        OK
        to create the application group.
    7. Specify the action—
      Allow
      or
      Deny
      —for the traffic, and optionally attach the default security profiles for antivirus, anti-spyware, and vulnerability protection, under Profiles.
    8. Repeats the steps above to create the pertinent policy rules.
    9. Click
      Commit
      , select Commit Type as
      Panorama
      . Click
      OK
      .
  4. Apply the policies to the VM-Series firewalls for NSX-V.
    1. Click
      Commit
      , and select Commit Type
      Device Groups
      .
    2. Select the device group, NSX-V Device Group in this example and click
      OK
      .
    3. Verify that the commit is successful.
  5. Validate that the members of the dynamic address group are populated on the VM-Series firewall.
    1. From Panorama, switch device context to launch the web interface of a firewall to which you pushed policies.
    2. On the VM-Series firewall, select
      Policies
      Security
      , and select a rule.
    3. Select the drop-down arrow next to the address group link, and select
      Inspect
      . You can also verify that the match criteria is accurate.
    4. Click the
      more
      link and verify that the list of registered IP addresses is displayed.
      Policy will be enforced for all IP addresses that belong to this address group, and are displayed here.
  6. (
    Optional
    ) Use template to push a base configuration for network and device configuration such as DNS server, NTP server, Syslog server, and login banner.
    Refer to the Panorama Administrator’s Guide for information on using templates.
  7. Create a Zone Protection profile and attach it to a zone.
    A zone protection profile provides flood protection and has the ability to protect against port scanning, port sweeps and packet-based attacks. It allows you to secure intra-tier and inter-tier traffic between virtual machines within your data center and traffic from the Internet that is destined to the virtual machines (workloads) in your data center.
    1. Select your
      Template
      .
    2. Select
      Network
      Network Profiles
      Zone Protection
      to add and configure a new profile.
    3. Select
      Network
      Zones
      , click the default-zone listed and select the profile in the
      Zone Protection Profile
      drop down.
  8. Create a DoS Protection profile and attach it to DoS Protection policy rule.
    1. Select your
      Device Group
      .
    2. Select
      Objects
      Security Profiles
      DoS Protection
      to add and configure a new profile.
      • A classified profile allows the creation of a threshold that applies to a single source IP. For example, you can configure a max session rate for an IP address that matched the policy, and then block that single IP address once the threshold is triggered.
      • An aggregate profile allows the creation of a max session rate for all packets matching the policy. The threshold applies to new session rate for all IP addresses combined. Once the threshold is triggered it affects all traffic that matches the policy.
    3. Create a new DoS Protection policy rule in
      Policy
      DoS Protection,
      and attach the new profile to it.

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