Question 1:

Go into your firewall settings on your Windows system or the virtual machine you are using here. You can find them in Control Panel, System and Security, Windows Firewall. What are the settings for your Incoming Connections (should be listed underneath the status of your firewall)?

Question 2

Go into Allow apps to communicate through the Windows Firewall. What apps are allowed?

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Question 3

Are there any that you were surprised to see allowed to communicate?

Question 4

Check the Event Viewer on your Windows system for any security violations. Do you find any?

Question 5

These are iptables rules from a Linux system. Can you explain what these rules are doing?

iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 80 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT 

iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 443 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Question 6

Which type of rules would you consider to be more fine-grained and why? The Windows firewall or the Linux firewall?

Question 7

Are there advantages to the Windows firewall over the Linux firewall or the Linux firewall over the Windows firewall? Explain.