Firewalls
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Content Outline
• Introduction
• Working of Firewalls
• Types of Firewalls
• How to Use Firewall Protection?
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Tips for Effective use of firewalls
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Introduction to Firewalls
• A Firewall is a network security device that
monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic
and decides whether to allow or block specific
traffic based on a defined set of security rules.
• They establish a barrier between secured and
controlled internal networks that can be trusted
and untrusted outside networks, such as the
Internet.
• A firewall can be hardware, software, software-
as-a service (SaaS), public cloud, or private cloud
(virtual).
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Working Of Firewalls
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Types of Firewalls
• Packet Filtering Firewalls
• Proxy Service Firewalls
• Stateful Inspection Firewalls
• Next-Generation Firewalls
• Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls
• Threat-Focused NGFW
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• Packet Filtering Firewalls
A packet filtering firewall controls data flow to and from a network.
• Proxy Service Firewalls
This type of firewall protects the network by filtering messages at the application layer.
• Stateful Inspection Firewalls
Such a firewall permits or blocks network traffic based on state, port, and protocol .
• Next-Generation Firewalls
It adds application-level inspection, intrusion prevention, and information from outside the firewall to go
beyond port/protocol inspection and blocking.
• Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls
It generally integrates the capabilities of a stateful inspection firewall, intrusion prevention, and antivirus in a
loosely linked manner.
• Threat-Focused NGFW
These firewalls provide advanced threat detection and mitigation. With network and endpoint event correlation,6
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they may detect evasive or suspicious behavior.
How to Use Firewalls?
To keep your network and devices safe, make sure your firewall is set up and
maintained correctly. Here are some tips to help you improve your firewall security:
• Constantly update your firewalls as soon as possible
• Use antivirus protection
• Limit accessible ports and host
• Have active network
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Advantages and Disadvantages
• It provides enhanced security and privacy • Firewalls are not able to stop the users from
from vulnerable services. It prevents accessing the data or information from
unauthorized users from accessing a malicious websites, making them vulnerable to
private network that is connected to the internal threats or attacks.
internet. • It is not able to protect against the transfer of
virus-infected files or software if security rules
• Firewalls provide faster response time and are misconfigured, against non-technical
can handle more traffic loads. security risks (social engineering)
• It safeguards your network from phishing • It does not prevent misuse of passwords and
attacks. attackers with modems from dialing in to or out
of the internal network.
• A firewall allows you to easily handle and
update the security protocols from a single • Already infected systems are not secured by
authorized device. Firewalls.
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Tips for Effective use of firewalls
• Keep your firewall always turned ON
• Firewall software/hardware should be secluded
• Keep your OS update
• Deny the suspicious requests to circumvent your firewall
• Lock down VPN access
• Run firewall vulnerability scans regularly
• Block and entire country if under attack
• Update Firewall regularly
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