iTWire - Check Point Technologies demonstrates Web 3.0 firewall to protect the blockchain
Update: 2025-05-22
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Check Point Technologies released the stateful inspection firewall back in the 1990s. Now it's bringing the world's first Web 3.0 firewall, furthering its mission of securing the digital world for everyone, everywhere.Firewall technology harks back to age-old methods of physical defense when people first begun building walls to stop intruders. Yes, the Great Wall of China is a predecessor of today's firewall with attackers having moved online instead of in person.Check Point has been at the forefront of firewalls since its founding over 30 years ago. In fact, Check Point created the stateful firewall. You can read the patent by Gil Shwed here. Previously, firewalls inspected data packets and looked up a table of rules to consider the source, destination, ports, and protocols before making an allow or reject decision. It was a good start but lacked any memory of previous packets, treating every new packet in isolation. Acceptance or rejection was based solely on the set of rules without...
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