If you’ve chosen the BTnet Security optional extra, you can update your settings using the BTnet Security settings form.
BTnet Security comes ready with settings to suit many customers, which are shown in green below.
To help you select the right BTnet Security service for your business, simply use the information below when filling in the form.
Want to add BTnet Security? Contact your account manager or view the BTnet page
Security Option |
Description |
Available Settings Default option shown in |
Layer 3 Firewall |
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Outbound rules |
You can create custom rules for outbound traffic if you want, these would be added manually. You would need to tell us the protocol, source, source port, destination, destination port information and whether you want to allow/deny that access. |
No default settings, custom config on request |
Security appliance services |
ICMP ping is enabled for any remote IP addresses by default. But you can change this and specify only specific IP addresses if you would prefer. |
Any |
Layer 7 Firewall |
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Firewall rules |
This allows you to block pre-defined categories of applications. There is then the ability to block everything for that category or be more specific by domain name, IP, port, hostname or country. Available categories are shown below:
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The default categories we have blocked are below, but you can add more from the list shown if you like.
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Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) |
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Mode |
AMP protects you against malware and we don’t expect you’d ever want to turn it off. However, you can do so if you wish. |
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Whitelisted URLS |
In case you need to whitelist certain URL’s from being scanned by the AMP system. |
Add manually on request |
Whitelisted Files |
In case you need to whitelist certain files from being scanned by the AMP system. |
Add manually on request |
Intrusion Detection and Prevention |
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Mode |
Switch between detection and prevention settings. BT recommends this is always kept on to protect against known threats and patterns. You can change it to detection only if you would prefer. |
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Ruleset |
Allows you to configure how the intrusion detection and prevention operates, depending on how strict you would like it to be. There are 3 available modes, with the middle ‘balanced’ setting being our recommended default:
Security: Contains rules that are from the current year and the previous three years, are for vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of 8 or greater, and are in one of the following categories:
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Whitelisted Rules |
To allow certain rules related to the intrusion detection and prevention system. |
Add manually on request |
Content Filtering |
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Blocked category selection |
Content can be blocked by category to protect your users and stop certain sites being accessed There is a very wide range of categories available to choose from and we have defaulted to the list shown which we feel will be useful to most businesses as a starter. If you would like to add any more then please let us know. The available categories include (subject to change):
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The following categories are BLOCKED by default:
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URL list size |
Block the full list of sites in each category, or just the ‘top sites’ |
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URL blocking - Blocked patterns |
In case you need to blacklist certain sites which would otherwise be allowed by the content filtering controls active. |
Add manually on request |
URL blocking whitelist |
In case you need to whitelist certain sites which would otherwise be blocked by the content filtering controls active. |
Add manually on request |
The available configuration options are subject to change and will be updated here where applicable. Please see www.bt.com/terms for the BTnet Security service schedule and Terms and Conditions.
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