A walk through Windows Firewall and Netsh commands

A firewall is a network security system that controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on a set of rules.

Firewall can be hardware based/ software based or it can be the combination of both.

There are different types of firewall functioning at different layes of OSI Model like Packet Firewalls,

Stateful Firewalls, Application layer Firewalls, Proxy Firewall, Next Generation Firewalls etc.

This article explains about setting firewall in windows OS.

Article focuses on enabling firewall logs, understanding rules and its management, understanding firewall logs and finally it ends by describing about Netsh Commands an command line replacement for firewall GUI.

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