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2. Personal firewall | Wikipedia

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   A personal firewall is an application which controls network traffic to and from a computer, permitting or denying communications based on a security policy. [1] Typically it works as an application layer firewall. A personal firewall differs from a conventional firewall in terms of scale. A personal firewall will usually protect only the ...

3. Comparison of firewalls | Wikipedia

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   Proprietary. Included on Dell appliance. Proprietary operating system SonicOS. Based on the Linux kernel. Barracuda Firewall. Proprietary. Included Firewall Next Generation appliance. Windows -based appliance. embedded firewall distribution.

4. DMZ (computing) | Wikipedia

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   DMZ (computing) In computer security, a DMZ or demilitarized zone (sometimes referred to as a perimeter network or screened subnet) is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted, usually larger, network such as the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional ...

5. Firewall (computing) | Wikipedia

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   Firewall (computing) In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. [1][2] A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network, such as the Internet. [3]

6. Proxy server | Wikipedia

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   Proxy server. Communication between two computers connected through a third computer acting as a proxy server. This can protect Alice's privacy, as Bob only knows about the proxy and cannot identify or contact Alice directly. In computer networking, a proxy server is a server application that acts as an intermediary between a client requesting ...

7. Bastion host | Wikipedia

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   Bastion host. A bastion host is a special-purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks, so named by analogy to the bastion, a military fortification. The computer generally hosts a single application or process, for example, a proxy server or load balancer, and all other services are removed or limited ...