Guide to the Secure Configuration of Oracle Linux 9
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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firewalld
The dynamic firewall daemon <code>firewalld</code> provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network “zones” to assign a level of trust to a network and its associated connections an...Group -
Configure Firewalld to Use the Nftables Backend
Firewalld can be configured with many backends, such as nftables.Rule Medium Severity -
Inspect and Activate Default firewalld Rules
Firewalls can be used to separate networks into different zones based on the level of trust the user has decided to place on the devices and traffic within that network. <code>NetworkManager</code>...Group -
Verify firewalld Enabled
Thefirewalld
service can be enabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service
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Strengthen the Default Ruleset
The default rules can be strengthened. The system scripts that activate the firewall rules expect them to be defined in configuration files under the <code>/etc/firewalld/services</code> and <code>...Group
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