Setting Up the Mac OS X Firewall

Autor: Charles Edge, Gene Sullivan, William Barker, Beau Hunter
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Enterprise Mac Security ISBN: 9781430227304
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4302-2731-1_11
Popis: Put simply, a firewall is a network traffic moderator. It uses a set of rules to determine what kind of traffic is allowed in and out of your computer or network. The term is a bit ambiguous, because there are many types of firewalls. In Chapter 10, we discussed the importance of using a firewall to act as a gateway into your network, denying and allowing network traffic on a network-wide basis between your computers and the outside world. This is what we refer to as a hardware appliance firewall.
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