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Personal firewall: HIPS

Personal firewall: HIPS

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Personal firewall: HIPS

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- [Narrator] Firewalls are used in industry today to allow or deny traffic and control access based on a set of rules. As traffic passes through the device, the firewall checks the data and provides a defense strategy to protect the networks and the data. Firewalls can either be hardware-based or software-based. Many times an organization will use a hardware firewall as part of a router that can protect an entire network. A personal firewall is generally software-based and is used on an endpoint. A software firewall is installed on the end point and can be customized according to the user's needs. A personal firewall can do many of the same things as a hardware-based firewall, such as restrict access to specified services and monitor all the traffic that comes into the host. Examples include ZoneAlarm, ESET, and Norton Personal Firewall. An endpoint can also include intrusion detection. While closely related to a firewall, intrusion detection must first learn the system and then it…

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