Not able to block inbound local port 80 & 443

Products

• Endpoint Protection

Issue/Introduction

In the environment user create web server on port 80 & 443. Need to create a Endpoint Protection (SEP) firewall policy to restrict http(80) & https(443) inbound port.

Environment

SEP 14.3.x

Cause

Working as design.

Resolution

Traffic via browser and curl to the web server goes through the loopback adapter.

SEP firewall does not block traffic on the loopback adapter by design.