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Temporary Firewall-Rules via User Portal

Hello everybody,
we want to exchange our Checkpoint-Firewall with a Sophos UTM9 Cluster.
Checkpoint has a Webpage, where Users can Login and create "Firewall-Rules" for 30 minutes (for getting Updates from Lenovo for Example)

Can this be done via Sophos-UTM9?

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0 scorpionking over 11 years ago

No, but you can allow uses to unblock sites that are blocked by Web Filtering.
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0 CiscoChris929 over 11 years ago

Some Users need temporary FTP-Access - so i need to open Ports temporary.
Means, that with UTM9 Users have to call us admins and we have to create the rules manually?
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0 scorpionking over 11 years ago

Correct.
But you can create time based rules, so e.g. allow client X to connect via FTP only on day Y from 8:00 to 10:00.
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0 BAlfson over 11 years ago

Hi, Chris, and a belated welcome to the User BB!

I think I might solve this differently as scorpionking's first post above implied. With Web Protection in a Standard mode, the Proxy handles FTP requests from the browser. If you block all ftp:// yet allow certain, or all, people to bypass blocking, you can have the UTM automatically generate a report of who did what and when.

There are other workarounds, but that would seem to offer you more oversight and control than CheckPoint.

Cheers - Bob
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0 CiscoChris929 over 11 years ago

Hi Bob,
thank you for your Help.
I think i try out your Solution - if i can see who did what and when in the logs it should be fine.

Thank you

Greetings
Chris
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