• PP098: What Goes On Inside a Firewall? • Podcast:Download(52.9MB) |Embed Jennifer (JJ)Minella DrewConry-Murray On today’s show, we pop the lid off of a firewall (figuratively speaking) to understand what’s inside. • We talk about how a packet moves through various packet-processing elements inside a firewall, how header analysis and de-encapsulation work, which hardware component has the biggest impact on performance, why stateful inspection still matters in an age of application-level protection, and more. • Our guide on this journey through the firewall isMatthijs Nagel, Proof of Concept Engineer at HPE Networking. • This is not a sponsored show, and we’ll stick to firewalls as a general category and not get into product specifics. • AdSpot Sponsor: Meter Meter delivers full-stack networking-wired, wireless, and cellular-to leading enterprises.

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  • On today’s show, we pop the lid off of a firewall (figuratively speaking) to understand what’s inside. We talk about how a packet moves through various packet-processing elements inside a firewall, how header analysis and de-encapsulation work, which hardware component has the biggest impact on performance, why stateful inspection still matters in an age of application-level protection, and more. Our guide on this journey through the firewall is Matthijs Nagel, Proof of Concept Engineer at HPE Networking. This is not a sponsored show, and we’ll stick to firewalls as a general category and not

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