Systems and methods for protecting network devices by a firewall

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, including: upon a request from a client device, establishing, by a computer system implementing a gateway to a private network, a network tunnel between the client device and the gateway; the gateway further implementing a firewall including firewall rules for selectively blocking and allowing network traffic between the client device and one or more network devices in the private network; upon a triggering of a firewall rule by a request for access to the private network by the client device and before applying the firewall rule, checking, by the computer system, if a corresponding condition is met; and if the condition is not met, then, by the computer system, sending to the client device an action to be performed by the client device.