Azure Firewall & Azure Web application Firewall Policy

Question

Hi,

Is it possible to restrict required URL's or websites by using Azure services like Azure application Gateway or Web Application Firewall Policies or Azure firewall service....or can anyone suggest the best service or solution for allow/deny unwanted websites in Azure cloud level (@Anonymous Machine level or Resource group level) Can any one help me regarding the scenario.

Answer 1

Hello @Peela Vinod ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & hope you are doing well.

You can use Azure Firewall which is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources.

It has a feature called Web categories which lets administrators allow or deny user access to web site categories such as gambling websites, social media websites, and others. Web categories are included in Azure Firewall Standard, but it's more fine-tuned in Azure Firewall Premium. As opposed to the Web categories capability in the Standard SKU that matches the category based on an FQDN, the Premium SKU matches the category according to the entire URL for both HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

Please refer below articles for more information:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/features#web-categories
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/web-categories

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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