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Submitted by manish99· Apr 18, 2026Deploy and Configure

Question

A firewall engineer is migrating port-based rules to application-based rules by using the Policy Optimizer. The engineer needs to ensure that the new application-based rules are future-proofed, and that they will continue to match if the existing signatures for a specific application are expanded with new child applications. Which action will meet the requirement while ensuring that traffic unrelated to the specific application is not matched?

Options

  • ACreate a custom application and define it by the correct TCP and UDP ports
  • BCreate an application filter based on the existing application category and risk
  • CAdd specific applications that are seen when creating cloned rules
  • DAdd the relevant container application when creating cloned rules

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#Application-ID#Policy Optimizer#Security Policy#Container Applications
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