0 a device or program that stops people from seeing or using information on a computer without permission while it is connected to the internet
1 a computer system or program that prevents someone from seeing or using information on a computer without permission, especially someone using the internet:
2 a way of making sure that one part of banking does not affect another by separating the operations of the two, especially so that investment banking should not negatively affect the banking sector that ordinary people use:
One banking executive stated, "Creating a firewall between retail and investment operations may not be as simple as it first seems".
3 → Chinese wall
Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
Unlike hard security measures such as firewalls and access control, trust-based security mechanisms do not offer ironclad guarantees.
Limiting the access to certain ports of a server is both stated on the firewall and on the server itself.
The north 'firewall' is more conventionally braced by cross partitions.
They are increasingly being used behind corporate firewalls as planning and collaboration tools.
This example concerns an agent that crosses a firewall using previously arranged passwords.
It also shows how the notions of administrative domains, firewalls, authorisations, and so on, can be formalised in a calculus.
The overarching philosophy driving intrusion detection is that, due to their static nature, intrusion prevention techniques such as firewalls and routing filter policies fail to stop many types of attack.
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