Personal Firewalls

Personal firewalls should be installed and under privilaged users and processes MUST not be able to alter personal firewall configuration.

Firewalls should implement a default deny policy and should only allow those services which are explicitly required.

 


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Full testing of firewalls is carried out as part of Encription's penetration testing service.

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Use IBM consultancy and software to ensure all your systems are correctly configured for security compliance.

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Juniper’s network access control solution contains a personal firewall that is activated once the user is connected to the network.  This operation model ensures that only permissible network traffic is allowed to leave the endpoint, promoted greater security and preserving bandwidth.  For more details please email govconnect@juniper.net, phone 00-800-3-JUNIPER or visit www.juniper.net