{"id":8037,"date":"2026-10-17T15:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=8037"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:28:57","slug":"can-the-elements-epp-firewall-isolation-profile-be-activated-if-there-is-a-gpo-rule-to-ignore-locally-defined-rules","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/can-the-elements-epp-firewall-isolation-profile-be-activated-if-there-is-a-gpo-rule-to-ignore-locally-defined-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Elements EPP firewall Isolation profile be activated if there is a GPO rule to ignore locally defined rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Can the Elements Endpoint Proteciton Firewall Isolation profile be activated if there is a GPO rule to ignore locally defined rules?\u00a0 What will happen if a firewall rule distributed by GPO to &#39;Ignore locally defined rules&#39; and Elements Endpoint Protection tries to isolate the device from the network?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>Firewall rules configured via Elements Security Center Portal are considered local, hence if there is a GPO rule to ignore local rules it WithSecure rules or profiles will no longer work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our general recommendation is to choose one &#8211; either manage Windows Firewall with GPO, or with WithSecure profiles (or with the smallest possible input from GPO), otherwise in case of any conflicting settings GPO will have a higher priority and override WithSecure firewall rules. Also, if there are conflicts, it might impact the host performance negatively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installation of EPP admin can see WithSecure firewall rules created on the host including the isolation profile rules. What will happen if customer have a firewall rule distributed by GPO to &#8217;Ignore locally defined rules&#8217;. Will the Isolation Firewall profile works?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-8037","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005927","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-17 12:28:57","import_hash":"1c5796a819cd226cc68acfa9093f7709b8e6b974","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/8037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}