A firewall administrator is investigating high packet buffer utilization in the company firewall. After looking at the threat logs and seeing many flood attacks coming from a single source that are dropped a by the firewall, the administrator decides to enable packet butter protection to protect against similar attacks.
The administrator enables packet buffer protection globally in the firewall but still sees a high packet buffer utilization rate.
What else should the administrator do to stop packet buffers from being overflowed?

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A firewall administrator is investigating high packet buffer utilization in the company firewall. After looking at the threat logs and seeing many flood attacks coming from a single source that are dropped a by the firewall, the administrator decides to enable packet butter protection to protect against similar attacks.

The administrator enables packet buffer protection globally in the firewall but still sees a high packet buffer utilization rate.

What else should the administrator do to stop packet buffers from being overflowed?

TONG CHEE LOONG · Accepted Answer

Enable packet buffer protection for the affected zones.

TONG CHEE LOONG · Answer

Add the default Vulnerability Protection profile to all security rules that allow traffic from outside.

TONG CHEE LOONG · Answer

Add a Zone Protection profile to the affected zones.

TONG CHEE LOONG · Answer

Apply DOS profile to security rules allow traffic from outside.

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