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A Comparison of Firewall Performance in Distributed Systems
Overview As the amount of data being transferred over networks increases, the firewalls used to protect private networks must process traffic both faster and with greater reliability. A distributed firewall is a firewall that enforces each hosts policy from the host itself. This paper shows that distributed firewalls may provide faster access and higher data throughput than conventional firewalls, which only reside on the entry points of networks. It concludes that this can, to a certain extent, be attributed to its separation of policy enforcement to each network endpoint.
| Publisher | Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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