Firewall
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This document provides an overview of firewalls, including what they are, how they work, types of firewalls, and their history. A firewall is a program or device that filters network traffic between the internet and an internal network based on a set of rules. There are different types, including packet filtering routers, application-level gateways, and circuit-level gateways. Firewalls aim to only allow authorized traffic according to a security policy while protecting internal systems. They provide advantages such as restricting access and hiding internal network information but can also limit some network connectivity.
Firewall
- 3. Contents Introduction What is a Firewall How it works Applications of Firewall Software Firewall vs Hardware Firewall History Design goals for Firewall
- 4. Contents… Types Role of Firewall What about Viruses Advantages Disadvantages Conclusion
- 5. Introduction The Internet has made large amount of information available to the average computer user at home, in business and education. For many people, having access to this information is no longer just an advantage; it is essential. Therefore, security of network is the main criteria here and firewalls provide this security.
- 6. What is a Firewall? A Firewall is simply a program or hardware device that filters the information coming through the internet connection into your private network or computer system.
- 7. How it works??? The protocol that computers use to communicate on the internet is called ‘ TCP/IP ‘. Every computer on the internet has a unique internet protocol (IP Address) and each computer has a series of ‘ ports ‘ used to communicate with other computers. Ex: HTTP (Web pages)- Port 80 FTP (file)- Port 21
- 8. What is an application firewall? An application firewall is a special firewall that is specifically coded for the type of traffic it is inspecting. The most widely developed application firewall is the web application firewall.
- 9. Hardware firewall vs Software firewall Hardware firewalls are integrated into the router that sits between a computer and the Internet. Software firewalls are installed on individual servers. They intercept each connection request and then determine whether the request is valid or not.
- 10. History of Firewalls… Firewall technology first began to emerge in the late 1980s. Internet was still a fairly new technology in terms of its global usage and connectivity. In 1988 an employee at the NASA Ames Research Center in California sent a memo by email to his colleagues that read, "We are currently under attack from an Internet VIRUS!
- 11. History of Firewalls… The first paper published on firewall technology was in 1988, when Jeff Mogul from Digital Equipment Corp. developed filter systems know as packet filter firewalls. One of the largest internet security companies in the world released the product to the public in 1997.
- 12. Design goals for a firewall The first design goal for a firewall is that collectively the sum of all the network traffic from internal to external must go through the firewall physically cutting off all access to the local network except via the firewall. The second design goal would be only authorized traffic which is delineated by the local security policy will be allowed to proceed. Finally the last design goal is that the firewall itself is resistant to penetration inclusive is a solid trustworthy system with a protected operating system.
- 13. Types of firewalls Packet-filtering Router
- 14. Packet-filtering Router Applies a set of rules to each incoming IP packet and then forwards or discards the packet Filter packets going in both directions The packet filter is typically set up as a list of rules based on matches to fields in the IP or TCP header Two default policies (discard or forward)
- 15. Types of firewalls… Application-level Gateway
- 16. Application-level Gateway Also called proxy server Acts as a relay of application-level traffic
- 17. Types of firewalls… Circuit-level Gateway
- 18. Circuit-level Gateway Stand-alone system or Specialized function performed by an Application-level Gateway Sets up two TCP connections The gateway typically relays TCP segments from one connection to the other without examining the contents The security function consists of determining which connections will be allowed
- 19. The Role of Firewalls A firewall is a term used for a ``barrier'' between a network of machines and users that operate under a common security policy and generally trust each other, and the outside world. There are two basic reasons for using a firewall at present: to save money in concentrating your security on a small number of components, and to simplify the architecture of a system by restricting access only to machines that trust each other.
- 20. What about Viruses??? No, virus scanning is not the intended function of a firewall. It only looks at header info or file type to allow or block access. But some firewall comes with virus detecting capability Firewalls are typically located at the boundary between two networks.
- 21. Advantages of firewall Protocol filtering, where the firewall filters protocols and services that are either not necessary or that cannot be adequately secured from exploitation; Information hiding, in which a firewall can ``hide'' names of internal systems or electronic mail addresses, thereby revealing less information to outside hosts; Application gateways, where the firewall requires inside or outside users to connect first to the firewall before connecting further, thereby filtering the protocol;
- 22. Disadvantages of firewall The most obvious being that certain types of network access may be hampered or even blocked for some hosts, including telnet, ftp, X Windows, NFS, NIS, etc. A second disadvantage with a firewall system is that it concentrates security in one spot as opposed to distributing it among systems, thus a compromise of the firewall could be disastrous to other less-protected systems on the subnet.
- 23. Conclusion One of the best things about a firewall from a security standpoint is that it stops anyone on the outside from logging onto a computer in your private network. While this is a big deal for businesses, most home networks will probably not be threatened in this manner. Still, putting a firewall in place provides some peace of mind.
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