Firewalls as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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865 words · ~4 min read
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were most people asked to imagine a wall of fire they might think of the pyrot
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teic seen on any First Rate metal band
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stage but unfortunately firewall Protection Services aren't quite as awe
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inspiring as all that that's not to imply though that they aren't terribly
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important or that meltdowns caused by failing to ensure proper firewall
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protections can't be as damaging as the direct blast of a flamethrower firewalls
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adopt their name and function directly from physical structure stres that stand
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between danger often fire and fragile stuff like your face and computer
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firewalls actually do bear some similarity to their RL counterparts they
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work to protect users and their information not from thermal energy but
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instead from the scum and villainy which occupy The Wretched hives of the open
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internet generally speaking there are two layers of firewall protection which
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operate in conjunction with both hard and software to carry out a given set of
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rules Hardware firewall Solutions are automatically built into to the routers
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that most of us are using today these work by tagging all outgoing traffic
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from a private Network like the one in our home with a specific network ID that
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is then also attached to any corresponding incoming traffic this
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allows the router to determine the origin of incoming packets blocking any
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transfers which weren't initiated from behind the firewall it also prevents
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files from being downloaded without a user's knowledge and stops firststep
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intrusions known as port scan attacks letting us feel feel safe that the
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update for our favorite new game is what it says and not some piece of spyware
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that will constantly spam us with adverts for pills that improve performance I'm not sure where I got the
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idea I need those from software-based protections function by monitoring the
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Integrity of flowing traffic processes through variables such as incoming and
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destination IP addresses transfer times or download sizes and killing
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connections that don't meet expectations these are advantageous because they
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monitor outgoing traffic as well as incoming blocking programs such as IP
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spoofing ones from attacking individual machines once they've infiltrated a
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network these are what allow us to transfer files between our friends
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without worrying that a third party has attached something along the way or feel
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safe when constantly transferring packets during things such as an online
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gaming session knowing that any unapproved packets will be detected by
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the firewall in fact often times the largescale data thefts we hear about
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come as a result of some entity which has gone and painted a giant Target on
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their back by not implementing strong enough active firewall protection
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allowing unwanted information transfers to remain disguised as authentic ones so
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while in theory firewall protections work as seamlessly as their physical
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predecessors in practice these types of solutions can require a little bit more
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attention than your average W made of brick pretty well anyone who has ever
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installed a new game or component has
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run into that annoying Windows prompt asking them if they're really sure they
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wish to connect and update the software which won't even be enough if your
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router doesn't automatically get configured in the process and they can be used for things like Regional
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information censorship as well but while they're not all good news no matter how
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arbitrary a warning message might seem or how annoying its accompanying beep is
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these grievances are nothing compared to the sound your customers and partners
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will make when all of their credit cards and other information has been stolen
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why did they put a that logo behind me speaking of logos let's swap that out
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fractal Josh has decided to mercifully
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spare me this week all I have to do this
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time is tell you guys about their Sleek clean Scandinavian design their
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excellent cases power supplies and cooling products and how you can check
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those out at fractal dasd design.com
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that's all I have to say but actually there's another thing I have to say that
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was a total lie he's put me through a lot over the last 10 months and
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apparently there's going to be a clip show or something like that so it's not
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actually really any less embarrassing if I don't have to do those things again if
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I'm showing them to you guys again but don't worry too much about that the point is Josh wants you to let fractal
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design know what you thought of this whole humiliate Linus promotion on their
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Facebook page the should they bring these spots back what do you want to see
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from them in the future so that's pretty much it there's
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a link in the video description thanks for watching this episode as fast as
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possible guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it stunk leave a comment under the video if
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