Question

You have recently joined Royal Security Services as an information security intern. Your supervisor has asked you to research two network firewalls. In this regard, you have to create a table by comparing features of firewalls in terms of filtering methods (stateless or stateful filtering), additional features these firewalls support (IDS, content filtering, etc.), and the cost of each firewall. Which one you would recommend to your supervisor? Justify your answer.

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Answer 1

You have recently joined Royal Security Services as an information security intern. Your supervisor has asked you to research two network firewalls. In this regard, you have to create a table by comparing features of firewalls in terms of filtering methods (stateless or stateful filtering), additional features these firewalls support (IDS, content filtering, etc.), and the cost of each firewall. Which one you would recommend to your supervisor? Justify your answer.

Stateful Inspection Firewall	Packet Filtering firewall
1. It is stateful filtering firewall	1. It is stateless filtering firewall
2. Statefull firewall is good in detecting any intrusion attempt	2. Packet filtering can easily be compromise by attackers
3. It is costly and hard to implement the configuration of these firewall	3.It is cheap and easy to implement the configuration of these firewall
4. It check the headers of the packet as well as the other content of packets like port number, source mac, destination mac , source IP and destination IP	4. It only check the header of the packet like IP address source which can be easily bypass by attacker by IP spoofing
5. It provides you the features like IDS and IPS for example - next gen firewall	5. It does not provide you the feature like IDS and IPS
6. It is slower than packet Filtering firewall as it has a huge no of operation to done on each packet	6. It is faster than the statefull packet inspection firewall as it has only check the header of packet for filtering

In my opinion i recommend the Royal Security Services the stateful packet inspection firewall (like next gen firewall) next gen firewall is nothing but the enhanced version of stateful packet inspection firewall as it provides you the stateful inpection all features additionally with the IDS, IPS and it is most secure firewall but it is costly too but when we talking about security our priority should be security not the money

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