Firewall rules
The ordered list of permissions deciding what network traffic is allowed in and out of a business.
Most small-office firewall policies are archaeology. Rules were added over years by different people to make one thing work, none were ever removed, and the result is simultaneously too permissive in places and blocking something somebody needs.
Order matters and is the usual source of surprises: rules evaluate top down and the first match wins, so a broad allow near the top silently defeats every specific deny below it.
This is also the device most likely to be running firmware with a published vulnerability, because updating it means a short outage nobody wants to schedule.
What it costs
Monitoring and routine rule changes sit inside the $75 per location network add-on. A full policy rebuild is quoted per project, because the work depends entirely on what is already in there.
Related questions
How much does firewall management cost per month?
Monitoring, firmware and routine rule changes are part of the $75 per location add-on here. Standalone managed firewall services typically run $50 to $200 per device per month.
Why will nobody quote advanced firewall work up front?
Because the effort depends on the existing policy, which nobody can see until they look. A flat published price for it is a guess.
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