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Understanding Firewalld In Multi-Zone Configurations, Nathan R. Vance, William F. Polik
Understanding Firewalld In Multi-Zone Configurations, Nathan R. Vance, William F. Polik
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Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of a recently exposed vulnerability, or gain control using a stolen password. Any of the many internet services found on a typical Linux server could harbor a vulnerability that grants unauthorized access to the system.
Since it's an impossible task to harden a system at the application level against every possible threat, firewalls provide security by limiting access to a system. Firewalls filter incoming packets based on their …