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Network profiles and basic firewalls

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Network profiles and basic firewalls

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- So as we're trying to understand Windows 7 -- we've talked about basic protocols -- Windows 7 is a standard-based solution in terms of the use of IP addressing DNS. So far more standards-based, but there's extra tools built in, that we've been showing you throughout the Windows 7 networking lessons. Let's take a look at one of the new features of Windows 7 that I personally perceive to be very powerful, particularly as a security engineer as well. This concept of network profiles. I'll look at the basic Windows 7 firewall, and then at the very end we'll give you kind of a sneak peak of Windows Firewall with advanced security. Let's think about firewalls and let's think about the network profile. First, a firewall is simply blocking access. Our traditional firewalls are the concept would be -- let's protect our system behind the firewall so that anybody who's out on the internet -- the cloud -- cannot get to me. Typically, firewalls are designed to block this inbound traffic. But…

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