Creating an attack policy

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To protect your system from various types of attacks, such as smurf attacks or SYN floods, you can create one or more intrusion detection attack policies.

Prerequisite: You must have *ALLOBJ and *IOSYSCFG authority to work with intrusion detection policies.

Creating attack policies in IBM Navigator for i

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To create an attack policy in IBM® Navigator for i, perform these steps:
  1. Expand Security > Intrusion Detection.
  2. Click Manage policies.
  3. Select New from the Actions menu.
  4. Select Create a new intrusion detection policy and click OK.
  5. Select Attack policy, the desired attack type, and fill in the other properties on the new attack policy.
  6. After you finish editing the new policy, click OK on the New Policy page to save the new policy.