Rules

In general, rules specify the rights of a user, group, role, or organization to access objects of a specified type and state within a domain. Multicloud Defense supports a variety of cloud service providers and each of these environments have their own requirements or methods for their rules. Rules created in your cloud account might be handled differently than rules that are created in the Multicloud Defense Controller. Some rules are applied to gateways and instances by default so the environments have a basic level of protection as you continue to add and modify the rules and policies for optimal performance and coverage.

Rule types are important when considering the type of gateway environment you are catering to. Not all rules or rule types are completely compatible with every gateway environment. Gateway types supported in Multicloud Defense Controller are ingress, egress, and east-west.

For information about rules and rule sets, or how to create or modify rules and rule sets for policies and groups, read the rest of this chapter.