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With security groups for {{site.data.keyword.BluVirtServers}}, you can enact a set of IP filter rules that define how to handle incoming and outgoing traffic to both the public and private interfaces of a virtual server instance. A security group creates a sort of virtual firewall. {:shortdesc}
For more information about the security groups feature, see Getting started with security groups.