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# Overview

After you have onboarded your cloud account and your VPC/VNets in Aviatrix Cloud
Network Platform-as-a-Service (Aviatrix PaaS), you can apply security to your
VPC/VNets using the Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF) workflow.

Create SmartGroups, WebGroups, and DCF rules manually to protect your VPC/VNets.
The Security > Distributed Cloud Firewall > Monitor tab shows logs related to
your DCF rules.

## Prerequisites

* Onboard cloud accounts
  * [AWS](/docs/cloud/platform-administration/onboard-offboard/aws-cloud-account-onboard)
  * [Azure](/docs/cloud/platform-administration/onboard-offboard/azure-cloud-account-onboard)

* [Onboard VPC/VNets](/docs/cloud/platform-administration/onboard-offboard/vpc-vnet-onboard)

* [Create SmartGroups](/docs/cloud/resource-groups/smartgroup/smartgroups-create)

* [Create WebGroups](/docs/cloud/resource-groups/webgroups/webgroups-create)

## Distributed Cloud Firewall Rules

On the Distributed Cloud Firewall > Rules tab, create DCF rules for access
control. DCF enables network policy enforcement between SmartGroups,
ExternalGroups, Countries, Threat Feeds, and WebGroups you define in a single
cloud or across clouds.

## Distributed Cloud Firewall Monitor

On the Distributed Cloud Firewall Monitor tab, filter and analyze the traffic
from the DCF logs.

## Related Topics

* [Create Distributed Cloud Firewall Egress Rules](/docs/cloud/security/dcf/dcf-create-rules)
* [View Distributed Cloud Firewall Rule Details](/docs/cloud/security/dcf/dcf-rule-details)
* [Distributed Cloud Firewall Monitoring](/docs/cloud/security/dcf/dcf-monitor)
  Other tasks you might want to perform after securing your network traffic:

[Add Users](/docs/cloud/platform-administration/manage/user-add)

[Onboard Kubernetes Clusters](/docs/cloud/platform-administration/kubernetes/kubernetes-onboard)

[Create a Maintenance Window](/docs/cloud/platform-administration/manage/settings-maintenance-window)


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