What is the purpose of a firewall?
- 4 Answers
- 11230 Views
- I also Faced
- E-Mail Answers
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / guest
Firewalls are used to mediate and control all information
that is communicated between an external (untrusted) network
and an
internal (trusted) network. Firewalls make use of IP
filtering and application proxies to implement firewall
security policies.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 17 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / shashank
Firewall is basically used to prevent the network from
unauthorised access.
Firewall are basically 2 types
1) Hardware Firewall:-Its works on network layer and used
for packet filtering usually used for network security. Its
only allow/deny packets(ports).
eg- Cisco pix, checkpoint,juniper,netgear are vendors of
H/W firewall
2) Software Firewall:- Its work at application level.It is
signature based firewall it does not bloks malicious
packets. Its only blocks predefined malicious signature.
eg- Antivirus like Mcafee, Symantech, Quick Heal
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 11 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / joshi
The foremost purpose of Firewall is to prevent the
unauthenticated access of several resources of your network
as well as protection from ID-Theft scams such as spoofing
and phishing
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 8 Yes | 3 No |
what is sites, why we use it.
How does dlp work?
What is IPCONFIG command? Why it is used?
How the Router will pass messages or packets?How it communicate with the Switches?
which of the following network components is PRIMARILY set up to serve as security measure by preventing unauthorzed traffic between different segments of the network?
What does cia stand for in security management?
Can you give me some ransomware variants?
Why should you care about the OSI Reference Model
SAP GRC / Security & Authorizations TRAINING / Virsa and CC tools(GRC 5.3)
What is phishing?
What is intrusion prevention systems (ips)?
What are Digrams and Trigrams
Networking Protocols 
