CEH v9 Question of the Week: Firewall Traffic

Jason asked his company’s firewall administrator to set the firewall to inspect all incoming traffic on ports 80 and 443 to ensure that no malicious data is getting into the network. Why is this request not possible?

A. Firewalls cannot inspect traffic coming through port 443.
B. Firewalls can only inspect outbound traffic.
C. Firewalls cannot inspect traffic coming through port 80.
D. Firewalls cannot inspect traffic at all, they can only block or allow certain ports.

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is D.

Firewalls only block or allow data packets based on their TCP/IP properties such as source and destination addresses, port numbers, protocols used, etc.

 

Related Course
Certified Ethical Hacker v9

CEH v9 Question of the Week Series

• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Retina Scanners
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Employee Behavior
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: CVE-2007-2447
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: SQL Injection
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Web Application Penetration Testing
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: iptables
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Examine Streams of Packets
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Scans
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: SQL Injection
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Standard Risk Assessment
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Penetration Testing
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: SMB Over TCP/IP
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Block Cipher
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Prevent Future DoS Attacks
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Same MAC Address
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: XSS Scripting
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Sniff a Switched Network
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: TCP/IP Session Hijacking
• CEH v9 Question of the Week: Firewall Traffic

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