OfficeScan 10.6 Administrator's Guide - Trend Micro™ Online Help

Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.6 Administrator’s Guide
About the OfficeScan Firewall
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The OfficeScan firewall protects clients and servers on the network using stateful
inspection and high performance network virus scanning. Through the central
management console, you can create rules to filter connections by application, IP
address, port number, or protocol, and then apply the rules to different groups of users.
Note: You can enable, configure, and use the OfficeScan firewall on Windows XP
computers that also have Windows Firewall enabled. However, manage policies
carefully to avoid creating conflicting firewall policies and producing unexpected
results. See the Microsoft documentation for details on Windows Firewall.
The OfficeScan firewall includes the following key features and benefits:
Traffic Filtering
The OfficeScan firewall filters all incoming and outgoing traffic, providing the ability to
block certain types of traffic based on the following criteria:
• Direction (inbound/outbound)
• Protocol (TCP/UDP/ICMP/ICMPv6)
• Destination ports
• Source and destination computers
Application Filtering
The OfficeScan firewall filters incoming and outgoing traffic for specific applications,
allowing these applications to access the network. However, network connections will
depend on the policies set by the administrator.