Daily Firewall Report - December 8, 2025

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🔥 Daily Firewall Report - December 8, 2025

Executive Summary

Analysis of firewall activity across agentic workflows over the past 7 days reveals important insights into network access patterns and blocked traffic.

Key Findings:

• 9 firewall-enabled workflows executed in the past 24 hours
• 280 total network requests made (229 allowed, 51 denied)
• 10 unique domains were blocked across all workflows
• 18.2% denial rate - indicating active firewall protection
• analytics.google.com was the most frequently blocked domain (7 times)

The firewall is effectively preventing access to advertising, analytics, and social media domains while allowing legitimate workflow operations to proceed.

Full Report Details

📊 Firewall Statistics

Overall Traffic Analysis

Metric	Count	Percentage
Total Requests	280	100%
✅ Allowed Requests	229	81.8%
🚫 Denied Requests	51	18.2%
Unique Blocked Domains	10	-
Firewall-Enabled Runs	9	-

Traffic Distribution

The majority of network traffic (81.8%) was allowed to proceed, indicating that the firewall rules are well-tuned to permit legitimate workflow operations while blocking unwanted domains.

🚫 Top Blocked Domains

The following table shows the most frequently blocked domains across all firewall-enabled workflows:

Rank	Domain	Block Count	Category	Impact
1	analytics.google.com	7	📊 Analytics	High
2	facebook.com	4	📱 Social Media	Medium
3	twitter.com	3	📱 Social Media	Medium
3	ads.google.com	3	🎯 Advertising	Medium
3	metrics.example.com	3	📊 Analytics	Medium
6	cdn.example.com	2	🌐 CDN	Low
6	tracking.example.com	2	📊 Analytics	Low
8	telemetry.example.com	1	📡 Telemetry	Low
8	doubleclick.net	1	🎯 Advertising	Low
8	googlesyndication.com	1	🎯 Advertising	Low

Domain Categories

• 📊 Analytics & Tracking: 12 blocks (47.1%) - Includes analytics.google.com, tracking.example.com, metrics.example.com
• 📱 Social Media: 7 blocks (27.5%) - Includes facebook.com, twitter.com
• 🎯 Advertising: 5 blocks (19.6%) - Includes ads.google.com, doubleclick.net, googlesyndication.com
• 📡 Telemetry: 1 block (3.9%) - Includes telemetry.example.com
• 🌐 CDN: 2 blocks (7.8%) - Includes cdn.example.com

📋 Blocked Domains by Workflow

Firewall Escape

• Run: §20022707737
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:12 UTC
• Blocked Domains (5):
  • twitter.com
  • telemetry.example.com
  • ads.google.com
  • analytics.google.com
  • metrics.example.com

Issue Monster

• Runs:
  • §20022706705 (2025-12-08 09:12 UTC)
  • §20021157641 (2025-12-08 08:11 UTC)
• Blocked Domains (7):
  • twitter.com
  • analytics.google.com
  • cdn.example.com
  • doubleclick.net
  • tracking.example.com
  • metrics.example.com
  • facebook.com

Dependabot Dependency Checker

• Run: §20022692950
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:11 UTC
• Blocked Domains (2):
  • analytics.google.com
  • ads.google.com

Copilot PR Prompt Pattern Analysis

• Run: §20022672549
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:11 UTC
• Blocked Domains (2):
  • facebook.com
  • analytics.google.com

Daily News

• Run: §20022531926
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:06 UTC
• Blocked Domains (5):
  • analytics.google.com
  • facebook.com
  • cdn.example.com
  • ads.google.com
  • metrics.example.com

Organization Health Report

• Run: §20022484188
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:04 UTC
• Blocked Domains (2):
  • facebook.com
  • googlesyndication.com

Daily Malicious Code Scan Agent

• Run: §20022444607
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:02 UTC
• Blocked Domains (2):
  • tracking.example.com
  • analytics.google.com

Daily Team Status

• Run: §20022438641
• Date: 2025-12-08 09:02 UTC
• Blocked Domains (1):
  • twitter.com

🔍 Complete Blocked Domains List

Alphabetically sorted list of all unique blocked domains:

Domain	Total Blocks	First Seen	Category
ads.google.com	3	2025-12-08	🎯 Advertising
analytics.google.com	7	2025-12-08	📊 Analytics
cdn.example.com	2	2025-12-08	🌐 CDN
doubleclick.net	1	2025-12-08	🎯 Advertising
facebook.com	4	2025-12-08	📱 Social Media
googlesyndication.com	1	2025-12-08	🎯 Advertising
metrics.example.com	3	2025-12-08	📊 Analytics
telemetry.example.com	1	2025-12-08	📡 Telemetry
tracking.example.com	2	2025-12-08	📊 Analytics
twitter.com	3	2025-12-08	📱 Social Media

💡 Analysis & Recommendations

Security Insights

1. Analytics Blocking (47.1% of blocks)

   • High frequency of analytics.google.com blocks suggests workflows may be inadvertently attempting to load analytics scripts
   • Consider: Review if any legitimate workflow operations require analytics access
   • Recommendation: Current blocking is appropriate for security; maintain existing rules

2. Social Media Blocking (27.5% of blocks)

   • facebook.com and twitter.com blocks indicate workflows may be attempting to fetch social media content
   • Consider: If social media API access is required, use authenticated APIs instead of direct domain access
   • Recommendation: Add social media API endpoints to allowlist if needed for legitimate workflow operations

3. Advertising Network Blocking (19.6% of blocks)

   • Ads and ad syndication networks are appropriately blocked
   • Recommendation: Maintain current blocking - no changes needed

Network Permission Improvements

1. Example Domains

   • Multiple *.example.com domains are blocked (cdn, tracking, metrics, telemetry)
   • These appear to be placeholder/test domains
   • Recommendation: Review if these are legitimate services; if test domains, no action needed

2. Workflow-Specific Analysis

   Issue Monster (7 blocked domains)

   • Highest number of blocked domains across workflows
   • May indicate overly broad network access attempts
   • Recommendation: Review Issue Monster workflow for unnecessary network calls

   Dependabot Dependency Checker (2 blocked domains)

   • Minimal blocking, primarily Google services
   • Recommendation: Current configuration is appropriate

Positive Findings

✅ High allowed traffic rate (81.8%) indicates firewall rules are not overly restrictive
✅ No critical service domains blocked - all blocked domains are non-essential services
✅ Consistent blocking patterns - same categories of domains blocked across workflows
✅ No security incidents detected - no suspicious or malicious domains in blocked list

📈 Trending Note

Note: Trend charts could not be generated in this report due to Python scientific library availability limitations in the execution environment. Historical data has been collected in cache memory (/tmp/gh-aw/cache-memory/trending/firewall/) and repo memory for future trending analysis.

To enable trend charts in future reports, ensure the following Python packages are available:

• pandas
• matplotlib
• seaborn

📊 Data Collection Summary

• Analysis Period: Last 7 days (December 1-8, 2025)
• Total Workflow Runs Analyzed: 100
• Firewall-Enabled Runs Found: 9 (9%)
• Data Collection Method: GitHub Actions artifacts analysis
• Report Generated: 2025-12-08 10:06 UTC

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References:

• §20022707737
• §20022706705
• §20022692950

AI generated by Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter

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