Measures reported by WgPolicyTest

The security policy of your organization is a set of definitions to protect your computer network and the information that goes through it. The XTM device denies all packets that are not specifically allowed. When you add a policy to your XTM device configuration file, you add a set of rules that tell the XTM device to allow or deny traffic based upon factors such as source and destination of the packet or the TCP/IP port or protocol used for the packet.

A policy can also give the XTM device more instructions on how to handle the packet. For example, you can define logging and notification settings that apply to the traffic, or use NAT (Network Address Translation) to change the source IP address and port of network traffic.

For each firewall policy that is configured, this test monitors the number of active connections and the amount of data/packet traffic through the firewall. In addition, this test helps the administrators in identifying the firewall policy through which the maximum number of packets were discarded due to various errors such as replay, authentication etc.

The measures made by this test are as follows: