Configuring Firewall Policies

Configure firewall policies to prevent unwanted network connections initialized from an external device or programs running on a mobile device.

Mobile Security provides two filtering methods for the firewall feature:

To configure firewall policies:

  1. In the Device Management screen, click Domain Policies > Data Security > Firewall Policy.

  2. Under Firewall Policy, select how Mobile Security is to treat network traffic on mobile devices.

  3. Enable firewall

  4. Enable Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

    An intrusion detection system (IDS) is built into the Mobile Security firewall feature to block attempts from external sources from continuously sending requests to the mobile devices. Such attempts may constitute a denial of service (DoS) attack and can render the targeted mobile devices too busy to accept other connections.

  5. High: blocks all inbound and outbound traffic.

  6. Normal: enables all outbound traffic but blocks all inbound traffic.

  7. Low: enables all inbound and outbound traffic.

  1. For the root domain, select Apply changes to all domains after clicking 'Save'. This action copies policies to all sub-domains.

  2. For the sub-domain, select Send notification messages to mobile devices after clicking 'Save'. This action sends an SMS notification to Mobile Device Agents about the configuration changes.

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