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AWS Network Firewall

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AWS Network Firewall is a managed network security service that provides protection for your Amazon VPC networks. It allows you to deploy network security across your VPCs with just a few clicks, without the need to provision or manage any infrastructure. Network Firewall provides fine-grained control over network traffic, allowing you to create firewall rules that provide protections like blocking outbound Server Message Block (SMB) requests to prevent the spread of malware, or disallowing domains and IP addresses that pose threats. AWS Network Firewall includes stateful inspection, intrusion prevention, and web filtering. The service uses rule groups to define network traffic inspection and filtering behaviors. These rule groups can be shared and reused across multiple firewalls, simplifying management for large or complex networks. Network Firewall integrates with other AWS services like CloudWatch for logging and monitoring, and AWS Firewall Manager for centralized management o...

Using Intune filters when assigning

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  Intune filters is a feature of Microsoft Intune that enables administrators to filter and target specific groups of devices or users based on certain criteria. It helps admins in application or policy assign- ments, and filters help to remove some of the conflicts in application deployments. With filters, you as IT admin have more flexibility when it comes to assignments. This means that you can assign to a group of users or devices and leverage the filter to include or exclude devices based on attributes that are supported with filters. Filters are evaluated promptly when devices check in to the Intune service, making them significantly faster than Entra dynamic groups, which operate on a scheduled basis. We will give you some examples of filters that can be useful when assigning different apps, policies, etc. To start creating filters, you need to follow these steps: 1.  In the Intune portal, go to Tenant admin | Filters. 2.  Click Create. 3.  In the first exampl...