Tencent Cloud Firewall (CFW) is a SaaS-based firewall in the public cloud environment. It currently provides users with Internet Boundary Protection and is used for unified management of access control and log auditing. It possesses the features of traditional firewalls, supports multi-tenancy on the cloud and elastic scaling, and serves as the network security infrastructure for users migrating their businesses to the cloud.
This section introduces the Tencent Cloud Firewall API interface, which is an API 3.0 interface.
You can call APIs to operate Tencent Cloud Firewall, such as switching firewall status, managing intrusion defense, and managing access control.
For ALL supported API information of Tencent Cloud Firewall, please refer to the API overview (https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1132/49080?from_cn_redirect=1).
Common terminology of Tencent Cloud Firewall API interface please refer to the table below:
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Tag | Tag (TagInfo) is a metadata structure for resource classification management, containing TagKey and TagValue. It uses key-value pairs to achieve refined categorization and management of assets. |
| Access Control List | An Access Control List (ACL) is a collection of security policies for defining network traffic filtering rules, supporting fine-grained traffic control based on quintuple (source/destination IP, port, protocol). |
For API parameter limits, refer to the parameter description in each API document.
You can use the API Explorer tool to call APIs online.
This document bases on creating an access control rule, and the steps to call an API through the API Explorer Tool are as follows:
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