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Complete Project 4.1, “The McAfee Firewall,” from Ch. 4, “Firewall Practical Applications,” of Network Defense and Countermeasures: Principles and Practices.
PROJECT 4.1: Finding Firewall Solutions in Your Organization
Contact an organization you are associated with (an employer, your school, a local company, etc.). Explain to the organization that you are doing a school project and arrange to discuss its firewall solution with the network administrator. Determine why the organization selected its particular solution. Was cost a major factor? Was ease of use a major factor? What features were most important to them? Explain your findings and discuss whether you agree or disagree with that organization’s choice.
**If you don’t have time to ask specific questions to your organization, just choose a generic firewall and discuss why you would use that firewall for an organization; what would be major factors that would affect you choosing that firewall; what features are most important to you.
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EXERCISE 4.1: The McAfee Firewall1. Download the McAfee personal firewall. You may wish to download one copy to one machine for the entire class to take turns using, or contact McAfee and request an academic discount or free copy.2. Install and configure the McAfee firewall on your machine.3. Examine the firewall’s configuration utilities.4. Examine extra features such as its attack tracing utility.5. Attempt to send packets to blocked ports on that firewall.
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