Global policies and objects function in a similar fashion to the policies and objects you are already familiar with, but are applied universally to all ADOMs and VDOMs inside your FortiManager installation. This allows users in a carrier, service provider or large enterprise to support complex installations that may require their customers to pass traffic through their own network.

For example, a carrier or host may allow customers to transit traffic through their network, but do not want their customer to have the ability to access the carrier’s internal network or resources. Creating global policy header and footer packages to effectively surround a customer’s policy packages can help maintain security.