STEM Dictionary

Information Technology:

Fiber Optics

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Filter

Firewall

Flooding

Firewall

Definition

a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network

Sentence

Firewalls are very important for security.

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 1104229, 1501756, and 1902474.