Firewall management

Firewall management allows you to easily configure firewall settings on protected workloads.

This functionality in Cyber Protect is provided through a built-in Microsoft Defender Firewall component of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Defender Firewall blocks unauthorized network traffic flowing into or out of your workloads.

Firewall management is applicable for the workloads on which Microsoft Defender Firewall is installed.

Supported Windows operating systems

The following Windows operating systems are supported for the firewall management:

Windows

• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

Windows Server is not supported.

Enabling and disabling firewall management

You can enable firewall management when creating a protection plan. You can change an existing protection plan to enable or disable firewall management.

To enable or disable firewall management

1. In the Cyber Protect console, go to Devices > All devices.
2. Do one of the following to open the protection plan panel:
• If you are going to create a new protection plan, select a machine to protect, click Protect, and then click Create plan.
• If you are going to change an existing protection plan, select a protected machine, click Protect, click the ellipsis (...) next to the name of the protection plan, and then click Edit.
3. In the protection plan panel, navigate to the Firewall management area, and enable or disable Firewall management.
4. Do one of the following to apply your changes:
• If creating a protection plan, click Create.
• If editing a protection plan, click Save.

Microsoft Defender Firewall status in the Firewall management area of the protection plan panel is displayed as On or Off, depending on whether you enabled or disabled the firewall management.

You might also access the protection plan panel from the Management tab. However, this capability is not available in all editions of the Cyber Protection service.