Chartered Accountant
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Joined December 2007
Firewall is a program which monitors all inward and outward traffic and grants access/ deny access. It can be compared to the security guard who checks on every vehicle entering or leaving a compound. We can program the firewall to allow authorised communications or disallow specific contents - for eg, many companies will block uploading of DOC/ XLS files from the company network to internet.
Firewall can be either software based or hardware based or a combination of these.
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