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# Build DNS security policies

DNS security is an important, wide-reaching, and early action in the lifecycle of a request. Cloudflare operates one of the world's largest and fastest public DNS resolvers. Your users' public DNS requests will be resolved by that same resolution engine -- whether they are connecting from a network pointing its resolvers to Cloudflare or an endpoint running the Cloudflare One Client.

## Objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

* Create your first Gateway DNS policy.
* Build an allow or block list for use in firewall policies.
* Onboard networks to Gateway to filter DNS queries.

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