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identify and compare three different network firewall products (software or hard

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Question

identify and compare three different network firewall products (software or hardware) and give your answers in a Word table like the one below. Your evaluation should address both the strengths and weaknesses of each product.

Firewall Product & Company Name

Web Address (URL) for Firewall Product

Summary List of Product Features

Evaluation and Comments (Strengths & Weaknesses)




Firewall Product & Company Name

Web Address (URL) for Firewall Product

Summary List of Product Features

Evaluation and Comments (Strengths & Weaknesses)




Explanation / Answer

1. Provides egress filtering

2. It can seperately cofigure firewall settings for each network interface

3. Connection security supports dynamic encryption

Strength:

1. It has overcome the shortcomings of Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)

2. Boot time protection

Weakness:

1.Not as feature rich as ZoneAlarm

2. Not as robust

1. Advanced Firewall. Monitors programs for suspicious behavior spotting

2. Two-way Firewall. Makes your PC invisible to hackers and stops spyware from sending your data out to the Internet.

3.Identity Protection

Strength:

1. Feature rich

2. Robust against attacks

Weakness:

1. It does not feature boot-time protection

2. It cannot be configured locally using the netsh command

1. Uses Netfilter's connection tracking facilities for stateful packet filtering.

2. Supports centralized firewall administration.

Strengths:

1. Can work with zones

Weaknesses:

1. It doesn't detect all cases where adjacent rules could be
optimized by creating a separate chain

2. It cannot reorder rules based on frequency of match.

FirewallProduct and Company Name Web address for firewall product Summary list of Product features Evaluation and Comments Windows Firewall of Microsoft Windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=11698

1. Provides egress filtering

2. It can seperately cofigure firewall settings for each network interface

3. Connection security supports dynamic encryption

Strength:

1. It has overcome the shortcomings of Internet Connection Firewall (ICF)

2. Boot time protection

Weakness:

1.Not as feature rich as ZoneAlarm

2. Not as robust

ZoneAlarm https://www.zonealarm.com/software/free-firewall/

1. Advanced Firewall. Monitors programs for suspicious behavior spotting

2. Two-way Firewall. Makes your PC invisible to hackers and stops spyware from sending your data out to the Internet.

3.Identity Protection

Strength:

1. Feature rich

2. Robust against attacks

Weakness:

1. It does not feature boot-time protection

2. It cannot be configured locally using the netsh command

Shorewall shorewall.org/download.htm

1. Uses Netfilter's connection tracking facilities for stateful packet filtering.

2. Supports centralized firewall administration.

Strengths:

1. Can work with zones

Weaknesses:

1. It doesn't detect all cases where adjacent rules could be
optimized by creating a separate chain

2. It cannot reorder rules based on frequency of match.