Personal Firewall and Related Products

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| COMP.5430 | | Professional Skills for IT Practitioners [PERSONAL FIREWALL AND RELATED PRODUCTS] | | NAVDEEP SINGH (2010001244) Abstract: Personal firewall is software present on PC’s which protects or stop the unauthorised access and alarmed or tell us that someone wants to enter in your field. This assignment described features of firewall, how firewall works, different software providing this feature and uses in future. Table of Content S.No | TOPIC | PAGE NO. | 1. | Introduction | 3 | 2. | Discussion | 3 | 3. | Personal Firewalls and Comparison | 5 | 4. | Using Firewall more effectively | 8 | 5. | Conclusion and Future work | 9 | 6. | References | 10 | Introduction: When network came in world and number of computers and laptops start connecting privately and publicly with wired and corporate wireless networks at that time software came in sight called personal firewall. Personal firewall plays a shield role between incoming and outgoing network connection. Personal firewall work silently but when an interruption occurred between network connection(it is occurred by any viruses or by any other users entered without permission), it instantly alerting us by showing alert message and ask for instant action to stop that problem. If user shows no response than it automatically stop that interruption. Discussion: Firewall applies either on software or hardware or apply combine on both hardware and software. It used or protect or stop unauthorized access in internet connection or especially in private sector (Intranet). Every message or packet data send or received completely detected by it, if their any problem shown then it shows a message and block that message or packet. Firewall used different types of techniques to work and check network as follow: 1. Packet filter- It based only on the packet detection method or
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