Week 40: Last week

Hurray this blog post marks the completion of another course. For our final week, we had light reading centered  around Security. I would say this is probably the most most important topic.

Firewalls provide protection against malicious attacks and activity on computers or networks. Some firewalls provide intrusion detection systems or intrusion prev some firewall’s provide intrusion detection systems(IDS) and or intrusion prevention systems(IPS), these systems scan your network traffic for mailicous packets or sctivity.

Firewalls come in three varieties, stateless packet filters, stateful filters, and application gateways.