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E Com Firewall

- The document discusses the development of the kinza.exe virus and Microsoft's response of developing patches and including firewalls in Windows starting with XP SP2. - It defines firewalls as programs that control network traffic between private and public networks according to security policies, and notes they were developed in response to viruses. - The document also covers the types of firewalls, their advantages like increased security, and disadvantages like potential slowing of applications.

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E Com Firewall

- The document discusses the development of the kinza.exe virus and Microsoft's response of developing patches and including firewalls in Windows starting with XP SP2. - It defines firewalls as programs that control network traffic between private and public networks according to security policies, and notes they were developed in response to viruses. - The document also covers the types of firewalls, their advantages like increased security, and disadvantages like potential slowing of applications.

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CASE SCENARIO

Development of kinza.exe. Considered as virus. Microsoft developed a patch. Later had to develop firewall and from Windows XP service pack 2 every edition of windows have firewall inbuilt.

FIREWALL
A firewall insulates a private network

from a public network using carefully established controls on the types of request they will route through to the private network for processing and fulfillment. OR A firewall is a set of related programs located at network server that protect the resources of the private network from other networks.

FIREWALL
Cheswick and Bellovin define a firewall as a collection of components or a system placed between two networks and possessing the following properties:

All traffic from inside to

outside, and vice-versa, must pass through it;


Only authorized traffic, as defined

by the local security policy, is allowed to pass through it.

NEED OF FIREWALL IN E-COMMERCE


The following are the needs of firewall in E-commerce:
Customer Information
Credit Card Numbers

Integrity of your Site


Proprietary Information

TYPES OF FIREWALL
Firewall can be broadly categorized into 2 type

Hardware Firewall Software Firewall Hardware Firewall: A Hardware firewall is a physical device and a stand alone product like router. It is best suited for business and large network. A hardware firewall employs packet filtering. It is effective and easy to use but costly.

TYPES OF FIREWALL
Software Firewall: A Software firewall is not physical device, it

is only software which is generally installed on your computer used for protecting it. Software firewalls are best suited for protecting computers from Trojan programs or e-mail worms. Software firewalls are best suited for the home user who wants easy customization. Some top software firewall packages also include anti-spam, anti-virus, even anti-popup ad software.

ADVANTAGES OF FIREWALL
The following are the advantages of firewall: A feeling of increased security that your PC and contents are being protected. Relatively inexpensive or free for personal use. New releases are becoming user friendly. Some firewalls but not all can detect viruses,

worms, Trojan horses, or data collectors.

IDS AND FIREWALL


An intrusion detection system (IDS)

is a device or software application that monitors network or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and produces reports to a Management Station. Though both IDS and firewall relates to network security the IDS looks at the packets that flow within the network also whereas firewall does not look at the packet flowing within network.

DISADVANTAGES OF FIREWALL
The following are the disadvantages of firewall: Firewall may slow down the application as the resources used by firewall will be more. You need to specialist to install firewall. Although firewall can save you from outside

network it cant stop intrusions from internal network.

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