| Like the name implies Firewalls are designed to permit, | | | | They help speed of traffic and help contain harmful |
| deny, encrypt, and decrypt any information that travels | | | | information by caching information thus making it more |
| through (or domain to domain). The great thing about | | | | readily available rather than accessing the required |
| Firewalls is the creation of NAT (Network Address | | | | server on the spot. It is a nice advantage, because |
| Translation). With NAT you can hide yourself behind | | | | without an active connection the odds of harmful |
| private addresses and they can also be used by | | | | information getting in are reduced quite a bit. Still when |
| proxies to help contain corrupt information from | | | | looking at proxy servers, there are different types with |
| spreading to fast as well as help regulate traffic, since | | | | different abilities. There are caching proxies who do |
| it can filter out or contain information. Firewalls can be | | | | what I mentioned above, and there are web proxies |
| a great tool or a useless tool; it all depends on how | | | | that focus caching web information to improve load |
| you maintain them. Most people that just run default | | | | time rather caching common resources like cache |
| probably are not making the most use of their firewalls. | | | | proxies. There are content filtering proxies hostile |
| If you modify them or use advanced tools firewalls | | | | proxies that can eavesdrop on flowing information, |
| can do quite a lot of things to help protect you from | | | | anonymous proxies. The list of proxy types go on and |
| the common problems of the computer world. | | | | on, because all a proxy server really is are something |
| Proxy Servers work by requesting information from | | | | that catches and find information, so if you have a goal |
| other servers to be sent back to the requested client. | | | | you can create a proxy to run it. |