What is Firewall? Firewall protects your network from unauthorized access to or from a private network.

It provides NAT & usage monitoring. It implements VPNs using IPSec. Why Firewall: 1. With the help of firewall we can block the unwanted sites for accessing by Employees. 2. We can protect the data from misuse. 3. We can prevent internal communications like chatting from social networking sites (Gmail, Yahoo, facebook etc) 4. We can securely allow internal servers to external. So, we can protect server attacks from hackers. Why VPN: 1. By using VPN an employee can access internal system from home/outside. 2. We can also allow limited access to our data for an employee working through VPN. 3. We can apply same security to the employee who is accessing through VPN.

NEED OF FIREWALLS: The general reasoning behind firewall usage is that without a firewall, a subnet's systems expose themselves to inherently insecure services such as NFS or NIS and to probes and attacks from hosts elsewhere on the network. In a firewall-less environment, network security relies totally on host security and all hosts must, in a sense, cooperate to achieve a uniformly high level of security. The larger the subnet, the less manageable it is to maintain all hosts at the same level of security. As mistakes and lapses in security become more common, break-ins occur not as the result of complex attacks, but because of simple errors in configuration and inadequate passwords. A firewall approach provides numerous advantages to sites by helping to increase overall host security. The following sections summarize the primary benefits of using a firewall. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Protection from Vulnerable Services Controlled Access to Site Systems Concentrated Security Enhanced Privacy Logging and Statistics on Network Use, Misuse Policy Enforcement

About Global VPN 1. 2. 3. 4. VPN is used to provide secure network links across networks VPN is constructed on top of existing network media and protocols On protocol level IPsec is the first choice Other protocols are PPTP, L2TP

Firewall in VPN Can also act as VPN gateways Active content filtering technologies

Disadvantages of Firewall 1. Firewalls can be difficult to configure correctly, especially for novices. 2. Incorrectly configured firewalls may block users from performing certain actions on the Internet, until the firewall configured correctly. 3. It may also conflict with another if you have 2 or more firewalls installed.