Question

Question 2:

Answer the following questions related to Firewall Technologies:

1. What are the types of firewalls?
2. What are security zones?
3. What is a firewall DMZ?

Answer 1

1 ans:

There are 8 types of firewalls:

1. Next-gen firewalls
2. Packet-filtering firewalls
3. Cloud firewalls
4. Application-level gateways (a.k.a. proxy firewalls)
5. Stateful inspection firewalls
6. Circuit-level gateways
7. Hardware firewalls
8. Software firewalls

2 ans:

Security zones in the firewall: It is the network segment in which a firewall group physical and virtual interfaces together to control and log the traffic to and from the particular network.

3 ans:

Firewall DMZ :

It is also called a firewall demilitarized zone.

It is also referred to as a perimeter network.

DMZ is used in the firewall is to protect the host from endangered attack and also exposed the untrusted networks.