SWOT
Analysis
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 Strengths:
 Protects your computer
from many types of abuses that harm unprotected computers such as: application
backdoors, SMTP session hijacking, email bombs, and Spam.
 Protects anyone from the
outside from logging onto a computer in your private network.
 Weaknesses:
 The highest level of
security is to block everything, which defeats the purpose of having
an
internet connection.
 Many computer abuses are
hard, if not impossible, to filter using a firewall.
 Opportunities:
 Allows you to perform
your daily computer activities with less worry that your computer will be
harmed.
 You can create a
firewall to protect you from the most common threats from your computer
activities and still be able to perform your necessary functions on the
computer.
 Threats:
 The firewall cannot
protect your computer from attacks that do not go through the firewall filters.
 Firewalls do not do well
in protecting your computer from viruses.
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