{"id":7959,"date":"2009-10-20T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=7959"},"modified":"2025-04-18T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:50:03","slug":"campus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/network\/firewall\/campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\"><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"tw icon-mapmarker\"><\/span> Quick Start<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available to:<\/strong>\u00a0Students, Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Departments<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:\u00a0<\/strong>No charge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See\u00a0<a href=\"#GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/a>, below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>The campus firewall protects all devices connected to the campus network by blocking unwanted\u00a0port scans, viruses, and attacks from outside the campus network.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>By screening network traffic as it crosses the boundary between the Internet and the campus network, the firewall blocks certain probes and attacks from reaching our networked computers, creating a safer computing environment for everyone.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>All devices on our network are protected, with no action required by device owners.<\/li>\n<li>The firewall is designed to provide maximum security with minimal impact on performance.<\/li>\n<li>Application aware allowing for more granular and secure security control<\/li>\n<li>Global threat intelligence feed<\/li>\n<li>Automatically blocks known bad web sites, threats and viruses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>None<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"GettingStarted\"><\/a>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/network\/firewall\/campus\/about\/\">about the campus firewall<\/a> (<em>BU login required<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Get a listing of the <a href=\"\/tech\/services\/security\/firewalls\/campus\/ipspace\/\">IP address space allocated to Boston University<\/a> <em>(BU login required).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about the <a href=\"\/tech\/services\/security\/firewalls\/campus\/rules\">current firewall rules<\/a> <em>(BU login required).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Learn about <a href=\"\/tech\/services\/security\/firewalls\/campus\/exempt\">how to get exemptions<\/a> from the campus firewall <em>(BU login required)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bu.service-now.com\/sp?id=sc_cat_item&amp;sys_id=62f8d44d871316902e92426d8bbb35fb&amp;sysparm_category=4cd2d914db38445053c1d776489619c4\">Request an exemption for VPN services<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campus firewall protects all devices connected to the campus network by blocking unwanted vulnerability scans and attacks from outside the campus network&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2127,"featured_media":0,"parent":87861,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156925,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7959\/revisions\/156925"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}