- What's New
- Function Overview
- Service Overview
- Getting Started
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User Guide
- Creating a User Group and Granting Permissions
- Checking the Dashboard
- Purchasing and Changing the Specifications of CFW
- Enabling Internet Border Traffic Protection
- Enabling VPC Border Traffic Protection
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Configuring Access Control Policies to Control Traffic
- Access Control Policy Overview
- Configuring Protection Rules to Block or Allow Traffic
- Adding Blacklist or Whitelist Items to Block or Allow Traffic
- Viewing Protection Information Using the Policy Assistant
- Managing Access Control Policies
- Managing IP Address Groups
- Domain Name Management
- Service Group Management
- Attack Defense
- Viewing Traffic Statistics
- Viewing CFW Protection Logs
- System Management
- Viewing Audit Logs
- Viewing Monitoring Metrics
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Best Practices
- CFW Best Practice Summary
- Purchasing and Querying CFW via API
- Migrating Security Policies to CFW in Batches
- Configuration Suggestions for Using CFW with WAF, Advanced Anti-DDoS, and CDN
- Allowing Internet Traffic Only to a Specified Port
- Allowing Outbound Traffic from Cloud Resources Only to a Specified Domain Name
- Using CFW to Defend Against Network Attacks
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API Reference
- Before You Start
- API Overview
- API Calling
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API
- Domain Name Management
- VPC Protection
- Rule Hit Count
- IPS Switch Management
- East-west Protection
- ACL Rule Management
- Blacklist and Whitelist Management
- Log Query Management
- Protection Mode Management
- Cloud Firewall Information Management
- Service Group Management
- Service Group Member Management
- EIP Management
- Address Group Member Management
- Address Group Management
- Appendix
- Change History
- SDK Reference
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FAQs
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About the Product
- Does CFW Support Off-Cloud Servers?
- Can CFW Be Shared Across Accounts?
- What Are the Differences Between CFW and WAF?
- What Are the Differences Between CFW, Security Groups, and Network ACLs?
- How Does CFW Control Access?
- What Are the Priorities of the Protection Settings in CFW?
- Can WAF and CFW Be Deployed Together?
- How Long Are CFW Logs Stored by Default?
- Regions and AZs
- Troubleshooting
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Network Traffic
- How Do I Calculate the Number of Protected VPCs and the Peak Protection Traffic at the VPC Border?
- How Does CFW Collect Traffic Statistics?
- What Is the Protection Bandwidth Provided by CFW?
- What Do I Do If My Service Traffic Exceeds the Protection Bandwidth?
- What Are the Differences Between the Data Displayed in Traffic Trend Module and the Traffic Analysis Page?
- How Do I Verify the Validity of an Outbound HTTP/HTTPS Domain Protection Rule?
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Adding Protection Rules to Block or Allow Traffic
After protection is enabled, CFW allows all traffic by default. You can configure protection rules to block or allow traffic.
- Protect the traffic of public network assets at the Internet border. For details, see Adding an Internet Boundary Protection Rule.
- Protect the access traffic between VPCs, or between a VPC and an IDC. For details, see Adding a VPC Border Protection Rule.
- For details about back-to-source IP addresses, see What Are Back-to-Source IP Addresses?.
- For details about how to configure the whitelist, see Adding Blacklist or Whitelist Items to Block or Allow Traffic.
Prerequisites
EIP protection must be enabled for Internet border traffic protection (EIP protection). For details, see Enabling Internet Border Traffic Protection.
Specification Limitations
To enable VPC border protection and NAT (private IP address) protection, use the CFW professional edition and enable VPC firewall protection. For details, see VPC Border Firewall.
Constraints
- CFW does not support application-level gateways (ALGs). ALG can analyze the fields in application-layer payloads and dynamically adjust policies for multi-channel protocols (such as FTP and SIP) whose payloads contain port numbers and IP addresses. However, CFW only support static policies for ports. To allow multi-channel protocol communication, you are advised to configure a rule to allow traffic from all ports.
- To use CFW persistent connections, enable a bidirectional bypass policy. If you only enable a unidirectional policy, the client will need to re-initiate connections in certain scenarios, such as enabling or disabling protection, and expanding engine capacities. You can also create a service ticket to evaluate the risks of related issues.
- Up to 20,000 protection rules can be added.
- The restrictions on a single protection rule are as follows:
- A maximum of 20 source IP addresses and 20 destination IP addresses can be added.
- A maximum of two source IP address groups and two destination IP address groups can be associated.
- A maximum of five service groups can be associated.
- Domain name protection depends on the DNS server you configure. The default DNS server may be unable resolute complete IP addresses. You are advised to configure DNS resolution if the domain names of your services need to be accessed.
- Predefined address groups can be configured only for the source addresses in inbound rules (whose Direction is set to Inbound).
- If NAT 64 protection is enabled and IPv6 access is used, allow traffic from the 198.19.0.0/16 CIDR block to pass through. NAT64 will translate source IP addresses into the CIDR block 198.19.0.0/16 for ACL access control.
Adding an Internet Boundary Protection Rule
- Log in to the management console.
- Click
in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
- In the navigation pane on the left, click
and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
- (Optional) If the current account has only one firewall instance, the firewall details page is displayed. If there are multiple firewall instances, click View in the Operation column of a firewall to go to its details page.
- In the navigation pane, choose Access Control > Access Policies.
- Add a protection rule.
Click the Internet Boundaries tab and click Add Rule. In the displayed page, enter new protection information. For details, see Table 1.
Table 1 Internet boundary rule parameters Parameter
Description
Rule Type
Protection type of a rule.- EIP: Protect EIP traffic. Only EIPs can be configured.
- NAT: Protect NAT traffic. Private IP addresses can be configured.
NOTE:
By default, EIP rules are configured. NAT rules can be configured after the professional firewall and VPC border firewall are configured.
Name
Name of the custom security policy.
Direction
Select a traffic direction if you set Protection Rule to EIP protection.- Inbound: Cloud assets (EIPs) are accessed from the Internet.
- Outbound: Cloud assets (EIPs) access the Internet.
Source
Source address of access traffic.- IP address: Enter EIPs. This parameter can be configured in the following formats:
- A single EIP, for example, xx.xx.10.5
- Consecutive EIPs, for example, xx.xx.0.2-xx.xx.0.10
- EIP segment, for example, xx.xx.2.0/24
- IP address group: A collection of EIPs. For details about how to add custom IP address groups, see Adding Custom IP Address Groups. For details about how to add a predefined address group, see Viewing a Predefined Address Group.
NOTE:
If Direction is set to Inbound, a predefined address group can be configured for the source address.
- Countries and regions: If Direction is set to Inbound, you can control access based on continents, countries, and regions.
- Any: any source address
Destination
Destination address of access traffic.- IP address: Enter EIPs. This parameter can be configured in the following formats:
- A single EIP, for example, xx.xx.10.5
- Consecutive EIPs, for example, xx.xx.0.2-xx.xx.0.10
- EIP segment, for example, xx.xx.2.0/24
- IP address group: You can add multiple EIPs to an IP address group. For details about how to add a custom IP address group, see Adding an IP Address Group.
- Countries and regions: If Direction is set to Outbound, you can control access based on continents, countries, and regions.
- Domain name: If Direction is set to Outbound, you can enter a multi-level single domain name (for example, top-level domain name example.com and level-2 domain name www.example.com) or a wildcard domain name (*.example.com).
NOTE:
- Mandatory for a single domain name. Click Test to check the validity of the domain name and perform DNS resolution. For details, see Configuring DNS Resolution. (Currently, up to 600 IP addresses can be resolved from a domain name.)
- If the domain name is a wildcard domain name, DNS resolution is not required. Only the HTTP or HTTPS application type can be added.
- Domain name group: If Direction is set to Outbound, a collection of multiple domain names is supported.
NOTE:
To protect a domain name, you are advised to configure a domain name group.
- Any: any destination address
Service
- Service: Set Protocol Type, Source Port, and Destination Port.
- Protocol Type: The value can be TCP, UDP, or ICMP.
- Source/Destination Port: If Protocol Type is set to TCP or UDP, you need to set the port number.
NOTE:
- To specify all the ports of an IP address, set Port to 1-65535.
- You can specify a single port. For example, to manage access on port 22, set Port to 22.
- To set a port range, use a hyphen (-) between the starting and ending ports. For example, to manage access on ports 80 to 443, set Port to 80-443.
- Service group: A service group is a set of services (protocols, source ports, and destination ports). For details about how to add a user-defined service group, see Adding a Service Group. For details about predefined service groups, see Viewing a Predefined Service Group.
- Any: any protocol type or port number
Protective Action
Set the action to be taken when traffic passes through the firewall.
- Allow: Traffic is forwarded.
- Block: Traffic is not forwarded.
Status
Whether a policy is enabled.
: enabled
: disabled
Priority
Priority of the rule. Its value can be:
- Pin on top: indicates that the priority of the policy is set to the highest.
- Lower than the selected rule: indicates that the policy priority is lower than a specified rule.
NOTE:
- A smaller value indicates a higher priority.
- The default priority of the first protection rule is 1. You do not need to configure its priority.
Allow Long Connection
If only one service is configured in the current protection rule and Protocol Type is set to TCP or UDP, you can configure the service session aging time.- Yes: Configure the long connection duration.
- No: Retain the default durations. The default connection durations for different protocols are as follows:
- TCP: 1800s
- UDP: 60s
NOTE:
Up to 50 rules can be configured with long connections.
Long Connection Duration
This parameter is mandatory if Allow Long Connection is set to Yes.
Configure the long connection duration. Configure the hour, minute, and second.
NOTE:
The duration range is 1 second to 1000 days.
Tags
(Optional) Tags are used to identify rules. You can use tags to classify and search for security policies.
Description
(Optional) Usage and application scenario
- Click OK to complete the protection rule configuration.
Adding a VPC Border Protection Rule
- Log in to the management console.
- Click
in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
- In the navigation pane on the left, click
and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
- (Optional) If the current account has only one firewall instance, the firewall details page is displayed. If there are multiple firewall instances, click View in the Operation column of a firewall to go to its details page.
- In the navigation pane, choose Access Control > Access Policies. Click the Inter-VPC Borders tab.
- Add a protection rule.
Click Add Rule. In the displayed dialog box, enter new protection information. For details, see Table 2.
Table 2 VPC border protection rule parameters Parameter
Description
Name
Name of the custom security policy.
Direction
You do not need to configure it for an inter-VPC protection rule.
Source
Source address of access traffic.- IP address: You can set a single IP address, consecutive IP addresses, or an IP address segment.
- A single IP address, for example, 192.168.10.5
- Consecutive IP addresses, for example, 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.10
- Address segment, for example, 192.168.2.0/24
- IP address group: A collection of IP addresses. For details, see Adding an IP Address Group.
- Any: any source address
Destination
Destination address of access traffic.- IP address: You can set a single IP address, consecutive IP addresses, or an IP address segment.
- A single IP address, for example, 192.168.10.5
- Consecutive IP addresses, for example, 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.10
- Address segment, for example, 192.168.2.0/24
- IP address group: A collection of IP addresses. For details, see Adding an IP Address Group.
- Any: any destination address
Service
Set the protocol type and port number of the access traffic.- Service: Set Protocol Type, Source Port, and Destination Port.
- Protocol Type: The value can be TCP, UDP, or ICMP.
- Source/Destination Port: If Protocol Type is set to TCP or UDP, you need to set the port number.
NOTE:
- To specify all the ports of an IP address, set Port to 1-65535.
- You can specify a single port. For example, to manage access on port 22, set Port to 22.
- To set a port range, use a hyphen (-) between the starting and ending ports. For example, to manage access on ports 80 to 443, set Port to 80-443.
- Service group: A collection of services (protocols, source ports, and destination ports) is supported. For details about how to add a custom service group, see Adding a User-defined Service Group. For details about predefined service groups, see Viewing a Predefined Service Group.
- Any: any protocol type or port number
Protective Action
Set the action to be taken when traffic passes through the firewall.
- Allow: Traffic is forwarded.
- Block: Traffic is not forwarded.
Status
Whether a policy is enabled.
: enabled
: disabled
Priority
Priority of the rule. Its value can be:
- Pin on top: indicates that the priority of the policy is set to the highest.
- Lower than the selected rule: indicates that the policy priority is lower than a specified rule.
NOTE:
- A smaller value indicates a higher priority.
- The default priority of the first protection rule is 1. You do not need to configure its priority.
Allow Long Connection
If only one service is configured in the current protection rule and Protocol Type is set to TCP or UDP, you can configure the service session aging time.- Yes: Configure the long connection duration.
- No: Retain the default durations. The default connection durations for different protocols are as follows:
- TCP: 1800s
- UDP: 60s
NOTE:
Up to 50 rules can be configured with long connections.
Long Connection Duration
This parameter is mandatory if Allow Long Connection is set to Yes.
Configure the long connection duration. Configure the hour, minute, and second.
NOTE:
The duration range is 1 second to 1000 days.
Tag
(Optional) Tags are used to identify rules. You can use tags to classify and search for security policies.
Description
(Optional) Usage and application scenario
- IP address: You can set a single IP address, consecutive IP addresses, or an IP address segment.
- Click OK to complete the protection rule configuration.
Adding a NAT Traffic Protection Rule
- Log in to the management console.
- Click
in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
- In the navigation pane on the left, click
and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
- (Optional) If the current account has only one firewall instance, the firewall details page is displayed. If there are multiple firewall instances, click View in the Operation column of a firewall to go to its details page.
- In the navigation pane, choose Access Control > Access Policies.
- Add a protection rule.
Click Add Rule. In the displayed Add Rule page, enter the protection information.
Table 3 SNAT protection rule parameters Parameter
Description
Rule Type
Select NAT to protect the traffic of the NAT gateway. Private IP addresses can be configured.
NOTE:
To select NAT, ensure that:- The professional edition firewall is used.
- The VPC border firewalls have been configured. For details, see . For details, see Managing VPC Border Firewalls.
Name
Name of the custom security policy.
Direction
Select SNAT.
Source
Source address of access traffic.- IP address: Enter private IP addresses. You can set a single IP address, consecutive IP addresses, or an IP address segment.
- A single IP address, for example, 192.168.10.5
- Consecutive IP addresses, for example, 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.10
- Address segment, for example, 192.168.2.0/24
- IP address group: You can add multiple private IP addresses to an IP address group. For details about how to add an IP address group, see Adding an IP Address Group.
- Countries and regions: A continent, a country, or a region
- Any: any source address
Destination
Destination address of access traffic.- IP address: Enter private IP addresses. You can set a single IP address, consecutive IP addresses, or an IP address segment.
- A single IP address, for example, 192.168.10.5
- Consecutive IP addresses, for example, 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.10
- Address segment, for example, 192.168.2.0/24
- IP address group: You can add multiple private IP addresses to an IP address group. For details about how to add an IP address group, see Adding an IP Address Group.
- Countries and regions: A continent, a country, or a region
- Domain Name/Domain Name Group: When Direction is set to Outbound, the protection of a domain name or domain name group is supported.
- Application: Supports the protection for domain names or wildcard domain names. Application-layer protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS are supported. Domain names are used for matching.
- Network: Supports protection for one or multiple domain names. Applies to network-layer protocols and supports all protocols. The resolved IP addresses are used for matching.
NOTE:
- To protect the domain names of HTTP and HTTPS applications, you can select any options.
- To protect the wildcard domain names of HTTP and HTTPS applications, select Application and then select any option from the drop-down list.
- To protect a single domain name of other application types (such as FTP, MySQL, and SMTP), select Network and select any option from the drop-down list. (If Domain name is selected, up to 600 IP addresses can be resolved.)
- If you need to configure the wildcard domain names or application domain name groups of the HTTP/HTTPS applications, and the network domain groups of other application types for the same domain name, ensure that the priority of the Network protection rule is higher than that of the Application protection rule.
- For details about application and network types, see Adding a Domain Name Group.
- Any: any destination address
Service
- Service: Set Protocol Type, Source Port, and Destination Port.
- Protocol Type: The value can be TCP, UDP, or ICMP.
- Source/Destination Port: If Protocol Type is set to TCP or UDP, you need to set the port number.
NOTE:
- To specify all the ports of an IP address, set Port to 1-65535.
- You can specify a single port. For example, to manage access on port 22, set Port to 22.
- To set a port range, use a hyphen (-) between the starting and ending ports. For example, to manage access on ports 80 to 443, set Port to 80-443.
- Service group: A service group is a set of services (protocols, source ports, and destination ports). For details about how to add a user-defined service group, see Adding a Service Group. For details about predefined service groups, see Viewing a Predefined Service Group.
- Any: any protocol type or port number
Protective Action
Set the action to be taken when traffic passes through the firewall.
- Allow: Traffic is forwarded.
- Block: Traffic is not forwarded.
Status
Whether a policy is enabled.
: enabled
: disabled
Priority
Priority of the rule. Its value can be:
- Pin on top: indicates that the priority of the policy is set to the highest.
- Lower than the selected rule: indicates that the policy priority is lower than a specified rule.
NOTE:
- A smaller value indicates a higher priority.
- The default priority of the first protection rule is 1. You do not need to configure its priority.
Allow Long Connection
If only one service is configured in the current protection rule and Protocol Type is set to TCP or UDP, you can configure the service session aging time.- Yes: Configure the long connection duration.
- No: Retain the default durations. The default connection durations for different protocols are as follows:
- TCP: 1800s
- UDP: 60s
NOTE:
Up to 50 rules can be configured with long connections.
Long Connection Duration
This parameter is mandatory if Allow Long Connection is set to Yes.
Configure the long connection duration. Configure the hour, minute, and second.
NOTE:
The duration range is 1 second to 1000 days.
Tags
(Optional) Tags are used to identify rules. You can use tags to classify and search for security policies.
Description
(Optional) Usage and application scenario
- Click OK to complete the protection rule configuration.
NOTE:
The default action of the access control policy is Allow.
Related Operations
For details about how to add protection rules in batches, see Importing and Exporting Protection Policies.
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