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origins26
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Configuring geo policies

This is my first time working with geo policies, now I'm trying to implement a geo policy that blocks traffic from Russia, I have a 5000 appliance  R80.10. 

Do I just have to configured it like this?

 
 
 
 

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Thank you for your help.

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Timothy_Hall
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Yes, but normally if you are blocking a country you want to block "from and to" to drop both connections initiated from that country, and any "phone home" attempts to that country initiated by malware already inside your network.  Also ensure that "Default Geo Policy" is applied to your firewall on the Gateways screen.

As Phoneboy says though use of Geo Updatable Objects in the mainline Access Control policy in R80.20+ is much more flexible and easy to work with.

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PhoneBoy
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Should be able to.
However it might be better to upgrade to R80.20 or later and use the Updatable Objects for Russia in the access policy, which is far more flexible.
Timothy_Hall
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Yes, but normally if you are blocking a country you want to block "from and to" to drop both connections initiated from that country, and any "phone home" attempts to that country initiated by malware already inside your network.  Also ensure that "Default Geo Policy" is applied to your firewall on the Gateways screen.

As Phoneboy says though use of Geo Updatable Objects in the mainline Access Control policy in R80.20+ is much more flexible and easy to work with.

Gateway Performance Optimization R81.20 Course
now available at maxpowerfirewalls.com
origins26
Explorer

Thank you all of you.

As of now I'm not able to upgrade to 80.20, so I'll be working with 80.10, as you said I'm going to configure it to block "from and to Country". I verified and Default Geo policiy is in the gateways screen. 

 

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JT_Ohio
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I would like to add an additional question to this.  We currently utilize updatable objects to block specific countries that love to send their packets to us. We are on R80.40.  Looks like we have a customer in one of these blocked countries. 

To create an exception, can I just add an ALLOW rule containing their network/IP above my country blocking rule?  I don't know if there is additional logic or checks when implementing country blocking in the security rule set.  I am not using a specific Geo policy on my gateway, just a block rule with updatable country objs at the top of my rule list.

Thank you!

JJ

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Timothy_Hall
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Correct, if you are using Geo Updatable objects in a policy rule to block a certain country just add an Accept rule above that one to implement the exception.  You may want to double-check that you are not also blocking that country in the legacy Geo Policy configuration, because if you are that block will be applied long before the rulebase gets evaluated.

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now available at maxpowerfirewalls.com
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Magnus-Holmberg
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As said above from R80.20 you can use updatable objects anywere in the rulebase.

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