Country Based Traffic Blocking:  To Block Traffic To Or From A Specific Country

You may need to block network traffic to and from certain countries that are known to be sources of cyber attacks. Some geographical regions may harbor individuals who carry out repeated brute force login attacks on your network and may need to be blocked. You also might want to prevent users in your computer network from accessing these networks.

Firewall allows you to block all incoming traffic  from and towards these countries. Anonymous IP addresses are used to hide a web user’s true IP address and misrepresent their geolocation deliberately by fraudsters and other bad actors.

Users in computer networks also use anonymous IPs to bypass geolocation controls to access restricted media content not available in their country. You can also block traffic to and from anonymous proxy networks and satellite providers  that are not bound to a specific country.

You can use this feature when there is a lot of unwanted traffic coming from a particular country. For example, 85+ percent of the brute force attacks on the Internet have a source IP that belongs to a particular country. In this case the user can simply block the incoming traffic from that particular country. Once incoming traffic from that particular country is blocked, the clean/normal traffic will be blocked too. To allow certain source IPs the user can exclude these IPs from  country based blocking page.