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There has been a lot of enhancements on Firewall access control side in version 5.3. As you have seen there are a lot of new element types you can use in policy access rules including Users and User Groups, Domain Names, Zones, Applications, URL Categories and TLS Matches. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned yet is that you can combine different type of Source, Destination and Service elements with AND -condition with the help of new policy cell editor. Just right-click any Source, Destination or Service cell in Access rules and you’ll see a small popup dialog. Once you put different type of elements on the same row, match is done only if all the elements on that row match the traffic.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 841 views \\ tags: 5.3, access rule, Feature Previews, network access control, Policy, rule, SMC

This picture visualizes lots of small enhancements made related to policy editing:

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written by Tero Jantunen - 679 views \\ tags: 5.2, Feature Previews, Policy, rule, rules, SMC

In many environments Network Address Translation (NAT) seems to be very extensively used. That has resulted in hundreds or even thousands of NAT rules in Firewall Policies. To help managing all these NAT rules, we have now introduce two nice features that you may have already used in Access Rules side.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,279 views \\ tags: 5.2, counters, Feature Previews, firewall, Links, NAT, NAT rule, Policy, rule, rule tags, Shortcuts, SMC