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A firewall is nothing but the firmware or software used to restrict unauthorized access to the network. The firewall has rules to inspect the incoming traffic and outgoing traffics and block unwanted threats. Therefore, the firewall is the main component of network security, which comes from the build-in of several systems such as Linux, Windows, and Mac. The discussed firewall has been utilized in both enterprise and personal settings.
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Rawal, B.S., Manogaran, G., Peter, A. (2023). Firewalls. In: Cybersecurity and Identity Access Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2658-7_7
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