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Historical Milestones

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Firewall is a combination of hardware and software that isolates an organization's internal network from the Internet at large, allowing specific connections to pass and blocking others. Network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. The term "firewall" it is also known in other disciplines, and in fact, these terms are not only concerned with network terminology. We also use a firewall, for example, for separating the garage from the house, or a separate apartment with one other apartment. In this case, a firewall is a barrier (barrier) against fire is meant to slow the spread of flames in case of fire before firefighters arrived to extinguish the fire. Another example of a firewall can also be found on vehicles, where the firewall separates the passenger compartment and the engine compartment.
Network firewall that first emerged in the late 1980s, a router …show more content…

The first commercial firewall of this type, using filters and application gateways (proxies), chances are the product of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) developed by DEC corporate firewall. Brian Reid and a team of network systems engineering laboratory in Palo Alto DEC is the creator of the firewall DEC. The first commercial firewall is configured for, and delivered to its first customer, a major chemical company based in the US east coast on June 13, 1991. Within a few months later, Marcus Ranum from Digital Corp. create security proxies and rewrite the code mostly firewall program. Firewall products are then mass produced under the trade name DEC SEAL (short for External Security Access Link). DEC SEAL composed of an external system called gatekeeper as the only system that can connect to the Internet, a so-called gate filtering gateway, and an internal

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