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Use advanced features in the Windows Firewall

Use advanced features in the Windows Firewall

From the course: Ethical Hacking: Evading IDS, Firewalls, and Honeypots

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Use advanced features in the Windows Firewall

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- [Instructor] Now that we've looked at the basic operation of Windows Firewall, let's take a look at the advanced settings. At the Firewall and Network Protection screen, I can see I'm on a public network. I'll select advanced settings. This brings me to the Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security screen. This is intended for system administrators in an enterprise network. We can see that at the middle panel, we have profiles for domain, private and public zones, as we did in the basic firewall. The various functions in this screen can be accessed through the rule items on the left, the properties links in the middle panel or from the actions links on the right. Advanced security allows us to apply specific restrictions to connections and also provides three additional features which are useful in an enterprise configuration, ensuring computers authenticate to each other before they connect, that data integrity is checked on all communications received and that data is…

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