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True or false about firewalls

Exercise and reference answers

Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Unpermitted traffic should generally be blocked.
  2. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    NAT is genuinely a firewall technology.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Examining more layers gives finer inspection.
  4. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    A proxy gateway is faster per packet.
  5. 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'_
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