68436: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud: How to whitelist Acronis traffic in Fortinet FortiGuard Application Control Service

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Last update: 14-05-2021

Scenario

You want to whitelist Acronis traffic in FortiGuard Application Control Service of your Fortinet firewall to ensure smooth operation of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.

Solution

FortiGuard Application control detection default setting is PASS and let user choose to allow or block the traffic.

You can use the custom signature to recognize the Acronis traffic:
 
F-SBID( --name "Acronis.Custom"; --protocol tcp; --service SSL; --flow from_client; --pattern "acronis.com"; --context host; --no_case; --app_cat 22; --weight 20; )