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  2. Personal firewall - Wikipedia

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    A personal firewall will usually protect only the computer on which it is installed, as compared to a conventional firewall which is normally installed on a designated interface between two or more networks, such as a router or proxy server. Hence, personal firewalls allow a security policy to be defined for individual computers, whereas a ...

  3. 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]

  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. Tunneling protocol - Wikipedia

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    The proxy then makes a TCP connection to a particular server:port, and relays data between that server:port and the client connection. [1] Because this creates a security hole, CONNECT-capable HTTP proxies commonly restrict access to the CONNECT method. The proxy allows connections only to specific ports, such as 443 for HTTPS. [2]

  6. SOCKS - Wikipedia

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    A circumvention tool, allowing traffic to bypass Internet filtering to access content otherwise blocked, e.g., by governments, workplaces, schools, and country-specific web services. [ 13 ] Since SOCKS is very detectable, a common approach is to present a SOCKS interface for more sophisticated protocols: The Tor onion proxy software presents a ...

  7. Internet security - Wikipedia

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    A computer firewall controls access to a single computer. A network firewall controls access to an entire network. A firewall is a security device — computer hardware or software — that filters traffic and blocks outsiders. It generally consists of gateways and filters. Firewalls can also screen network traffic and block traffic deemed ...

  8. Application firewall - Wikipedia

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    An application firewall is a form of firewall that controls input/output or system calls of an application or service. It operates by monitoring and blocking communications based on a configured policy, generally with predefined rule sets to choose from. The two primary categories of application firewalls are network-based and host-based.

  9. Application-level gateway - Wikipedia

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    An application-level gateway (ALG, also known as application-layer gateway, application gateway, application proxy, or application-level proxy) is a security component that augments a firewall or NAT employed in a mobile network. [1][2] It allows customized NAT traversal filters to be plugged into the gateway to support address and port ...

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