Thursday, 4 February 2016

What is firewall?

Firewall:
            
 Acting as a barrier between a trusted network and other untrusted networks such as the Internet or less-trusted networks such as a retail merchant's network outside of a cardholder data environment a firewall controls access to the resources of a network through a positive control model. This means that the only traffic allowed onto the network defined in the firewall policy is; all other traffic is denied.

Types of the firewall:
  • Packet firewalls
  • Stateful firewalls
  • Application-layer firewalls
  • Proxy firewalls
  • Firewalls in the perimeterless age

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