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Process analysis reveals that a critical business application requires new network access through the corporate firewall. The IT security team has received a request from the application\'s development lead to open specific ports. What is the most professional and secure approach to fulfilling this request?
Initiate a formal change control process, including detailed documentation of the request, a risk assessment, testing in a non-production environment, and post-implementation monitoring.
Immediately implement the requested firewall rule changes to ensure the application's functionality is not delayed.
Approve and implement the firewall rule changes based on a verbal confirmation from the development lead.
Modify existing firewall rules to allow traffic from the application's server IP address to the required ports without further investigation.

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