Resource types

Resources are categorized into different resource types, and used in different policy stages.

The following resource types are available:

Table 1.
Resource type Type Description Used in
Countries System-defined Countries represent IP address ranges associated with specific territories. Countries can be added to private applications policy to restrict access to private applications based on the originating IP address of the request.

Countries are dynamically updated by Forcepoint. You cannot edit the list.

Private application access rules
Source IP address lists User-defined

Source IP address lists contain internal corporate IP addresses that identify traffic by its originating address.

Private application access rules

Threat exceptions

Threat situations System

Threat situations define traffic signature patterns used by deep packet inspection to identify threats, used in the threat inspection policy stage.

Threat situations are dynamically updated by Forcepoint. You cannot edit the list.

Threat exceptions