Title: Describe firewalls.
Course: Cybersecurity Operations, Advanced (10302-III) > Section: Implementing Security Operations

Description should include

- identification of types of firewalls
  - web-application firewall (WAF)
  - next-generation firewall (NGFW)
  - stateful
  - stateless
  - unified threat management (UTM)
  - network address translation (NAT) gateway
  - content and/or uniform resource locator (URL) filter
  - open-source vs. proprietary
  - hardware vs. software

- appliance vs. host-based vs. virtual comparison
- characteristics, uses, performance, and benefits of each type of firewall
- software and hardware firewalls comparison
- host-based and network comparison.