1. A device, comprising: one or more processors to: receive a firewall filter entry that includes one or more match conditions associated with filtering network traffic; identify an access control list (ACL) template associated with the firewall filter entry, the ACL template being associated with a template type; identify one or more rules, for verifying the firewall filter entry, based on the template type associated with the ACL template; verify the firewall filter entry using the one or more rules; determine a hardware resource of the device, for storing the firewall filter entry, based on the template type and based on verifying the firewall filter entry; and store the firewall filter entry using the hardware resource, a first type of hardware resource being used to store the firewall filter entry when the template type is a first template type; and a second type of hardware resource being used to store the firewall filter entry when the template type is a second template type, the first type of hardware resource being a different type of hardware resource than the second type of hardware resource.