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Ethan and Holly provide an overview of firewalls and their relevance to network engineering and cybersecurity.

Today, Ethan and Holly provide an overview of firewalls. While cybersecurity is a separate discipline from network engineering, much of what happens in cybersecurity is interesting at the packet level, so there’s a good deal of overlap. It’s likely that as a network engineer, you’ll be managing, or at least dealing with, firewalls in your ... Read more »

People in this episode

Hosts: Ethan, Holly

Topics covered

• firewalls
• cybersecurity
• network engineering
• packet level
• network management

Keywords

• firewalls
• cybersecurity
• network engineering
• packet level
• network management

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Organizations: Packet Pushers

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