This article is about firewalls and with this kind of reading, people should learn more about firewalls. The article is an
understanding lecture that someone can read and get the idea about what a
firewall is.
As people now, nowadays many of us have the opportunity to be in contact with the internet but, some people do not know what the best way to use their equipment is.
Firewall can be in
hardware or in software however, there are some cons and pros related to firewalls.
According to the text, firewall is a way to protect your information. The author wrote that a firewall is a kind of door that a person can install in a computer to avoid that some hackers could have access into you personal data.
The article explain about that hardware firewall are integrated into the router of a network. They use packet filtering so, they scan packet headers to determinate where they come from.
Some advantages to a hardware firewall are that these can protect your entire network and these firewall works more efficiently for computers that use an internet connection.
One of the most important characteristics that hardware firewalls have is that it does not run into your computer so, that means everyone can be relax when they install that program on the computer because is not going to put your computer slower than the normal.
However, these have disadvantages too, because they are expensive and, if you don’t know about computers can be difficult to configure.
On the other hand is the software firewalls, these intercepts all the outgoing and ingoing requests from the net.
So, software firewalls are more economical, are easier to configure in your computer, and you can specify which applications are allowed to connect to the internet. But the problems are when you use this software firewalls you need more memory and disk space.