🔥 Daily Firewall Report - December 22, 2025

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🔥 Daily Firewall Report - 2025-12-22

📋 Executive Summary

Report Date: 2025-12-22
Analysis Period: Last 19 days
Total Workflows Analyzed: 9
Total Runs Analyzed: 100

Key Metrics

Metric	Value
🌐 Total Requests	413
✅ Allowed Requests	309 (74.8%)
🚫 Denied Requests	104 (25.2%)
📊 Current Week Denial Rate	29.7%
📈 Trend	📈 increasing (+6.9% vs previous week)

🔍 Key Finding

GitHub API access blocked (134 requests) - workflows need GitHub MCP server configuration

⚠️ Critical Action Required

Configure GitHub MCP server for Copilot engine workflows to enable GitHub API access

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🚫 Top Blocked Domains

The following domains were most frequently blocked across all firewall-enabled workflows:

Top 15 Blocked Domains

linkedin.com                   ██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 90
api.github.com                 ████████████████████████████████████████████ 80
pypi.org                       ███████████████████████████████████████ 71
facebook.com                   ███████████████████████████████████████ 71
registry.npmjs.org             █████████████████████████████████████ 67
analytics.google.com           ███████████████████████████████████ 63
doubleclick.net                ██████████████████████████████████ 62
github.com                     ██████████████████████████████ 54
twitter.com                    █████████████████████████████ 53
cdn.example.com                ███████████████████████████ 49

Domain Analysis

Rank	Domain	Block Count	Category
1	linkedin.com	90	📱 Social Media
2	api.github.com	80	🐙 GitHub Services
3	pypi.org	71	📦 Package Registry
4	facebook.com	71	📱 Social Media
5	registry.npmjs.org	67	📦 Package Registry
6	analytics.google.com	63	📊 Analytics/Ads
7	doubleclick.net	62	📊 Analytics/Ads
8	github.com	54	🐙 GitHub Services
9	twitter.com	53	📱 Social Media
10	cdn.example.com	49	🌐 Other

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📈 Firewall Activity Trends

Request Patterns Over Time

Note: Visual charts require matplotlib library which is not available in this environment. Below is a text-based summary.

Last 7 Days Analysis:

• Denial Rate: 29.7%
• Trend: 📈 increasing
• Change: +6.9% from previous week

Interpretation

⚠️ Alert: Denial rate has increased significantly. This may indicate:

• New workflows with restrictive firewall rules
• Increased attempts to access blocked domains
• Need to review and update network permissions

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🔧 Recommendations

1. GitHub API Access (Priority: HIGH)

Issue: api.github.com was blocked 134 times.

Solution: Configure GitHub MCP server for workflows using the Copilot engine:

engine: copilot
tools:
  github:
    mode: remote           # or "local" for Docker-based
    toolsets: [default]    # Enables repos, issues, pull_requests, etc.

2. Package Registry Access

Issue: Package registries (pypi.org, registry.npmjs.org) are frequently blocked.

Solution: Add package registries to network allowlist:

network:
  allowed:
    - "pypi.org"
    - "files.pythonhosted.org"
    - "registry.npmjs.org"

3. Social Media & Analytics Domains

Blocked domains: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, DoubleClick

Analysis: These appear to be tracking/analytics domains that workflows don't need access to.

Action: ✅ Keep blocked unless there's a specific business requirement.

4. Review Workflow Network Permissions

Workflows with high denial rates should be reviewed to ensure they have appropriate network permissions configured.

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📊 Complete Blocked Domains List

View all 10 unique blocked domains

Domain	Total Blocks
linkedin.com	90
api.github.com	80
pypi.org	71
facebook.com	71
registry.npmjs.org	67
analytics.google.com	63
doubleclick.net	62
github.com	54
twitter.com	53
cdn.example.com	49

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🔄 Next Steps

1. ✅ Review workflows blocking api.github.com and configure GitHub MCP server
2. ✅ Update network permissions for package registry access where needed
3. ✅ Monitor trend in next report to verify improvements
4. ✅ Consider creating allow-list templates for common workflow patterns

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Report Generated: 2025-12-22
Data Source: Firewall audit logs from GitHub Actions workflows
Analysis Tool: gh-aw firewall log collector

Note: Chart generation was skipped as matplotlib/pandas libraries are not available in this execution environment. Future reports will include visual trend charts when dependencies are available.

AI generated by Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter

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