McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention 6.1 Product Guide | Firewall Policies |
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Overview
The Host Intrusion Prevention firewall protects a networked computer from intrusions that compromise data, applications, or the operating system. It provides this protection by working at several layers of the network architecture, where different criteria are used to restrict network traffic. This network architecture is built on the
Figure 5-1 Network layers and protocols
HIP 6.0 rules
The firewall in Host Intrusion Prevention 6.0 worked basically at Network Layer 3 and Transport Layer 4, routing network packets to their destination. At these layers the firewall uses static packet filtering with
HIP 6.1 rules
The firewall in Host Intrusion Prevention 6.1 introduces a stateful firewall with both stateful packet filtering and stateful packet inspection.
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