Question

Distinguish among packet filtering firewalls, stateful inspection firewalls, and proxy firewalls. A thorough answer will require at least a paragraph for each type of firewall.
Acme Corporation wants to be sure employees surfing the web aren't victimized through drive-by downloads. Which type of firewall should Acme use? Explain why your answer is correct.

Answer 1

Answer:

packet filtering

Explanation:

We can use a packet filtering firewall, for something like this, reasons because when visiting a site these types of firewalls should block all incoming traffic and analyze each packet, before sending it to the user. So if the packet is coming from a malicious origin, we can then drop that packet and be on our day ;D