<div class="content" name="Introduction" uuid="495b9c3d-1265-4065-bc81-b0c83bf14bc9"><p>The Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol describes
managing security policies on remote computers. The specific policies that this
protocol manages are those of the firewall and advanced security components.
The protocol allows the same functionality that is available locally; it can
add, modify, delete, and enumerate policies. It can also enumerate <span><a href="d891304d-92d8-4f9f-9e60-a1f02b28ae30#gt_67cbf867-7a49-41f3-a68f-37b5f9035acb" data-linktype="relative-path">security
associations</a></span> that can be generated between hosts after this policy
is enforced.</p><p>Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are
normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are
informative.</p></div>