Firewalls

What does Firewall Do?

• Prevents Hackers
• Install Viruses
• Give you SD cards
• Blocks all content

Which of the following is a key function of a firewall?

• Monitoring
• Copying
• Moving
• Deleting

What Can't a Firewall Do?

• Can't protect against viruses.
• Stop hackers from accessing your computer.
• Determines which programs can access the Internet.

What acts as a middleman that translates between internal and external addresses and that caches previously accessed web pages so that it can provide those more quickly in the future?

• NAT server
• stateful packet inspector
• proxy server
• NIDS

Where is the optimal place to have a proxy server?

• In between two private networks
• In between a private network and a public network
• In between two public networks
• On all of the servers

Firewalls cannot prevent malicious software from accessing a computer or network via the internet

• True

• False

Firewalls provide protection against outside attackers by shielding your computer or network from malicious or unnecessary network traffic

• True

• False

Firewalls can be configured to block data from certain locations (i.e., computer network addresses), applications, or ports while allowing relevant and necessary data through

• True

• False

Provides Low Security

• Packet Filtering Firewall

• Application/Proxy Firewall

A Proxy Server

• filters web content requests like URL, domain, media, etc.

• is placed in front of web servers to hide, protect, offload and distribute access to web servers

• probes a computer for open ports