Firewall Fundamentals | TryHackMe — Writeup

Jynxx
1 min readNov 2, 2024

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Task 1

Which security solution inspects the incoming and outgoing traffic of a device or a network?

Firewall

Task 2

Which type of firewall maintains the state of connections?

stateful firewall

Which type of firewall offers heuristic analysis for the traffic?

next-generation firewall

Which type of firewall inspects the traffic coming to an application?

proxy firewall

Task 3

Which type of action should be defined in a rule to permit any traffic?

allow

What is the direction of the rule that is created for the traffic leaving our network?

outbound

Task 4

What is the name of the rule that was created to block all incoming traffic on the SSH port?

Core Op

A rule was created to allow SSH from one single IP address. What is the rule name?

Infra team

Which IP address is allowed under this rule?

192.168.13.7

Task 5

Which Linux firewall utility is considered to be the successor of “iptables”?

nftables

What rule would you issue with ufw to deny all outgoing traffic from your machine as a default policy? (answer without sudo)

ufw default deny outgoing

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