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Eight “Must Have” Firewall Rules
from McAfee

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Technology Brief

Description:
With the torrent of new threats resulting from Web 2.0, it’s likely that your existing firewall is leaving you exposed. This checklist should help you understand the advanced features available in next-generation firewalls and guide your evaluation process.
McAfee Tech Brief Sample

Since the majority of today’s traffic uses HTTP (port 80) and HTTPS (port 443), you need to be able to look inside these protocols and ports and deeply inspect the traffic itself, including encrypted traffic. Encryption is a common cybercrime tactic today. Client-side attacks targeting vulnerable web browsers and using encrypted connections traverse Cisco’s firewall without being decrypted and inspected, leaving networks completely unprotected.

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