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M18-02Vendor CLI · quiz

NGFW Zones & Policy

Next-gen firewalls (FortiGate, Palo Alto) think in zones and policies rather than line-by-line ACLs. Build the mental model that transfers across security vendors.

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On a next-gen firewall, interfaces are grouped into what, and policies are written between them?

2

A policy should allow the DMZ web server to be reached from the internet but block the internet from reaching the internal LAN. This is an example of…

3

What typically happens to traffic that matches no explicit NGFW policy?

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Beyond ports, what can an NGFW additionally match to identify traffic (a key 'next-gen' feature)?