What is a Firewall?

A hardware device connected to a LAN or software program that runs on the PC (local client) that prevents network traffic from getting to your PC or certain applications to communicate with the Internet or vice versa. Both forms of firewalls allows the network administrator of the LAN to set policies in place that prevent access to or from the Internet or between PCs within a given network LAN.
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