This is accomplished by applying firewall management principles that are responsive to the needs of the institution, along with a collaborative decision-making process to ensure that those needs are heard and addressed. Enable more extensive and adaptable use of common (shared) network firewall rules.The policy and implementation plan are designed to:

The principles and decision-making process established by the policy help reduce cybersecurity risk to the institution by enabling stronger and more adaptable protections than would otherwise be possible. However, strong and adaptable rules are more likely to have a short-term impact on university operations as they are tuned to maximum necessary protections and minimize inadvertent interference. Strong and adaptable rules provide better and more consistent protection. The purpose is to provide more extensive, adaptable, and consistent network protection in order to counter increasingly sophisticated and persistent attacks on university data and systems. This policy establishes the guiding principles and collaborative decision-making process for the administration, configuration, and operating procedures for network firewalls at UW–Madison.

Network firewall