5. HealthWorks Inc. is a healthcare company based in Zurich. The company provides health insurance services to enterprises. The company handles personal information of several clients. To safeguard and maintain the confidentiality of the client's personal information, the company follows standard security procedures. In line with these procedures, Kate, the Desktop Administrator, has been assigned a task to ensure that some machines used for hosting backup data need not be identified by the rest of machines in the network. Therefore, these machines should not respond to any query message request from unauthorized PCs. How can Kate perform the task? Experiment To accomplish the assigned task, Kate needs to perform the following tasks: Configure an outbound rule. Test the rule.

1. Configure an outdound rule.
2. Test the rule.

Task 1. Configure an Outdound Rule
2. Press the Windows+C keys. the Charms bar is displayed.
3. Click Search. The Search charm is displayed.
4. Type Command Prompt, and then press the Enter key. The Administrator: Command prompt window is displayed.
5. Type the ping Lon-DC1 command, and then press the Enter key. the successful replies from LON-DC1 and displayed.
6. Type the exit command, and then press the Enter key. Administrator: Command prompt windows is closed.
7. Press the Windows+I keys. the Setting charm is displayed.
8. Click Control Panel. The Controlpanel window is displayed.
9. Click the Network and Internet link. The Network and Internet window is displayed.
10. Click the Network and sharing center link. the Network and sharing center window is displayed.
11. Click the Windiws Firewall link from the left pane of the window. the Windows Firewall windows is displayed.
12. Click the Advanced setting link in the lift pane. the windows firewall with Advanced security window is displayed.
13. Select the Outbound Rules node in the pane. the Outbound Rules page is displayed in the middle pane.
14. Click the New rule link in the Actions pane. The Rule Type page of New Outbound Rule Wizard is displayed.
15. Select the Port option.
16. Click the Next button. the Protocol and Ports page is displayed.
17. Select the All remote ports option.
18. Click the Next button. the Action page displayed.
19. Ensure that the Block the Connection option is selected.
20. Click the Next button. The Profile page is dislayed.
21. Click the Next Button. the Name page is displayed.
22. Click Block ping in the Name text box.
23. Click the Finish button. The Block ping rule is displayed in the Outbound Rules pane and the Block ping
    pane is displayed at the bottom section of the right pane.
24. Click the Properties link in the Block ping pane. the Block ping properties dialog boxis displayed.
25. Click the protocol and Ports tab.
26. Select the ICMPv4 option from the protocol type drop-down list.
27. Click the Customize button beside the Internet Control Message Protocol.
28. Select the Specific ICMP type option.
29. Select the Echo Request check box in the specific ICMP type list box.
30. Click the OK button twice. the Windows Firewall with Advanced securuty window is displayed.
31. Close the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window.
32. Close the Windows Firewall window.

Task 2. Testing the Rule
To test the rule, you need to perform the following steps:
1. Opne the Command prompt window.
2. Type the ping LON-DC1 command, and then press the Enter key. the General failure messages are displayed four times.
3. One the windows firewall window.
4. Click the Advanced setting link in the left pane. the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window is displayed.
5. Select the Outbound Rules node in the left pane. the Outbound Rules page is displayed in the middle pane.
6.Select the Block ping rule. the Block ping page is Displayed at bottom section of the right pane.
7. Click the Disable Rule link.
8. Switch to the Administrator: Command Prompt window.
9. Type the ping LON-DC1 command, and then press the Enter key. the replies from Lon-DC1 are displayed.
10. Closw all the opne window.
11. Press the windows key. the Start screen is displayed.
12. Click Administrator: the Administrator menu is displayed.
13. Select the Sign out option.
14. Click the Revet button.
15. Close the connection window.
16. Close all the open windows.
17. Press the Windows key. the Start scetion is displayed.
18. Click Administrator. The Administrator menu is displayed.
19. Select the Sign out option.
20. Click the Revert button.
21. Close the connection window.