True or false about firewalls
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Unpermitted traffic should generally be blocked.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- NAT is genuinely a firewall technology.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Examining more layers gives finer inspection.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- A proxy gateway is faster per packet.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- A stateful firewall keeps a state table.
- Instructions
- Decide whether each statement is true or false.
Explanation
_Source: NIST SP 800-41 Rev. 1, 'Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy'_