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Management Control
Published in Douglas Brauer, John Cesarone, Total Manufacturing Assurance, 2022
A firewall is a hardware or software implementation that examines all information coming to a computer (or a network) from outside sources, such as the internet. The firewall watches for known threats, or likely threats, and attempts to block them before they can enter the system.
Cybersecurity Incident Response in the Enterprise
Published in Mohiuddin Ahmed, Nour Moustafa, Abu Barkat, Paul Haskell-Dowland, Next-Generation Enterprise Security and Governance, 2022
Nickson M. Karie, Leslie F. Sikos
Firewalls: Firewalls are computer network security systems designed either as hardware or software or a combination of both to prevent unauthorized access or restricts internet traffic to or from a private network. Depending on the application environment, several types of firewalls exist, such as Web application firewall, Packet Filters, Stateful Inspection and Proxy Server Firewalls. With the advancement in technology, it has become common for cybercriminals to hack firewalls.
Performance and evaluation of firewalls and security
Published in Sabyasachi Pramanik, Anand Sharma, Surbhi Bhatia, Dac-Nhuong Le, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Modern Network Security, 2022
Sneha Chowdary Kantheti, Ravi Manne
Although firewalls are used to secure the network, it also comes with certain security holes that can be bypassed in some cases. In addition to knowing the importance of network security and how to implement it, it is also equally important to know the vulnerabilities that help researchers gain a good perspective of problems, to find a practical solution to enhance the robustness of security [2–4].
Picture Fuzzy N-Soft Sets and Their Applications in Decision-Making Problems
Published in Fuzzy Information and Engineering, 2021
Ubaid Ur Rehman, Tahir Mahmood
The firewall refers to a security gateway that protects the computer networks from malicious instructions. There are several kinds of firewalls in the market and every firewall has its benefits and disbenefits. Therefore, how to select a beneficial firewall by seeing its effectiveness and precision is a conventional multi-attribute DM (MADM) problem.