Firewalls as information security tool

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Firewalls as information
security tool
Completed by: second-year
student of the information security
specialty, Adeliya Abrarova

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The reason for choosing the topic
• This is very important for ensuring information security
• Firewalls are widely used in organizations
• I am doing a project as part of a firewall setup training program

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Purpose and objectives
• Purpose:
• To study the types of firewalls, their functions and see which products are on
the domestic market
• Objectives:
• Definition of the concept of firewalls
• The differences are in traditional firewalls and next generation firewalls
• Consider which firewalls organizations use in Russia

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Plan
• What firewall is?
• Necessary to:
1) controls traffic between networks
to ensure data confidentiality
2) protect from external threats
3) provides the integrity of the
network infrastructure in organizations
• Conclusion

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What firewall is?
• Firewalls are an effective and necessary information security
tool that controls traffic between networks to ensure data
confidentiality, protect from external threats, provides the
integrity of the network infrastructure

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Traditional firewall VS NGFW
Necessary to controls traffic
between networks to ensure
data confidentiality

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Necessary to protect from external
threats
• Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems
• Deep packet inspection
• Distributed denial of service protection — Denial of service (DoS) attacks
• Virtual Private Networks(VPNs)
• URL blocking
• etc…

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Necessary to provides the integrity of the
network infrastructure in organizations
UserGate Firewall
"Continent 4" Firewall
ViPNet xFirewall 5

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Сonclusion
• In conclusion, firewalls are the main element of a comprehensive
information security system of modern organizations. They control the
traffic between the networks, ensuring:
• - Data privacy
• - Protection from external threats
• - Integrity of the network infrastructure

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Thank you for your attention!