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width="165" height="22" class="label"><a href="antivirus/antivirus.html" target="_blank" title="AntiVirus Scanners" tabindex="19">AntiVirus</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="500" summary="Cost-Effective Firewalls"> <tr valign="top"> <td colspan="2">  <h2 class="title">Cost-Effective Firewalls</h2> <p class="body">Firewalls prevent unsolicited network entry to private networks by computer criminals. Only network responses that have been explicitly requested by authorized users will be permitted past the firewall.</p> <p class="body"> (<strong>Example:</strong> when an authorized user requests a web page in their browser, only that web page response will be permitted to enter the corporate network from the Internet through the firewall; web pages not expressly requested by that user, which might have been transmitted by a computer criminal from the Internet, will not be able to enter that company's network through its firewall).</p>  <table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="200" align="right" summary="Excerpt"> <tr> <td height="5" colspan="2"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="5" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="5"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="5" /></td> <td width="175" valign="top"> <img src="../img/cost.gif" width="182" height="247" border="0" alt="By using firewalls that are good price-performers, it becomes more financially realistic to introduce multiple firewall layers..." longdesc="../img/cost.txt" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="5" colspan="2"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="5" /></td> </tr> </table>  <p class="body">There are a great variety of firewalls to choose from, but <span class="branding">SecurityAppraisers</span><span class="symbol" >®</span> only deploys those that are feature-rich yet cost-effective for most companies - in terms of not only their initial set-up expense, but also their recurring maintenance costs. By using firewalls that are good price-performers, it becomes more financially realistic to introduce multiple firewall layers to an enterprise, as opposed to just one for the Internet. This technique is known as <strong><em>Departmental Firewalling</em></strong>. [For example, you can deploy network controls to protect servers holding Accounting records from employees in other departments.]</p> <p class="body">There are four general classes of firewalls: <a href="../server/server.html" target="_self" tabindex="1" title="Server Based Firewalls">Server Based</a>, <a href="../app/app.html" target="_self" tabindex="2" title="Application Firewalls">Application</a>, <a href="../netapp/netapp.html" target="_self" tabindex="3" title="Network Appliance Firewalls">Network Appliance</a>, and <a href="../personal/personal.html" target="_self" tabindex="4" title="Personal Firewalls">Personal</a>.</p>  </td> </tr> </table> <br /> </td> </tr> </table> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" summary="Error"> <tr> <td class="error" valign="top"> <h2>Note:</h2> </td> <td class="error">This site is best viewed when using a browser that supports frames;<br /> the current browser you are using apparently does not. </td> </tr> </table> <br />  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="500" summary="footnote"> <tr> <td align="center" class="bodysm"><span class="symbol">©</span> 2002-2007 SecurityAppraisers. 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