Database security defines the collective measures used to protect and secure a database or database management software from unauthorized use and malicious cyber threats and attacks. Database security is a layer of information security. It is basically concerned with physical protection of information, encryption of data in storage and data ... Read More

There are various types of firewalls which are as follows −Traditional network firewalls − Packet-filtering network firewalls supports essential network protection by helping to avoid unwanted traffic from receiving into the corporate network. They work by using a group of network firewall security rules to decide whether to enable or ... Read More

Hardware firewalls use a physical appliance that facilitate in a manner same to a traffic router to intercept data packets and traffic requests before they are linked to the network's servers. Physical appliance-based firewalls like this excel at perimeter security by creating sure malicious traffic from external the network is ... Read More

An application firewall is a type of firewall that search, monitors and controls network, web and local system access and operations to and from an application or service. This type of firewall creates it possible to control and handle the operations of an application or service that is outside to ... Read More

The screening router firewall is called a network level or packet-filter firewall. Such a firewall works by screening incoming packets by protocol attributes. The protocol attributes screened can involve source or destination address, type of protocol, source or destination port, or multiple protocol-specific attributes.Screening routers are set up using rules ... Read More

Packet filtering is cheap to implement. It should be understood that a packet filtering device does not support the same level of security as an application or proxy firewall. All except the most trivial of IP networks is composed of IP subnets and include routers. Each router is a potential ... Read More

Packet filtering is controlling access to a network by inspecting the incoming and outgoing packets and letting them move or halting them depends on the IP address of the source and destination. Packet filtering is one technique for implementing security firewalls.Packet filtering is both a tool and a method that ... Read More

There are various types of Proxy Server which are as follows −Forward Proxy Server − A forward proxy is a type of proxy server that generally passes requests from users in an internal network to the internet through a firewall.Forward proxies are configured to allow or deny the user's request ... Read More

A proxy server is an intermediary server that fetch data from an Internet source, including a webpage, on behalf of a user. They act as more data security boundaries securing users from malicious events on the internet.Proxy servers have some uses, and it is based on their configuration and type. ... Read More

DMZ stand for the Demilitarized Zone. It defines a host or network that acts as a secure and intermediate network or path among an organization's internal network and the external, or non-propriety, network. It is called a network perimeter or perimeter network.DMZ is generally implemented to secure an inside network ... Read More