Which of the following types of firewalls ensures that the packets are part of the established session?

The correct answer is A. Stateful inspection firewall. A stateful firewall is a network firewall that tracks the operating state and characteristics of network connections traversing it. The firewall is configured to distinguish legitimate packets for different types of connections. Only packets matching a known active connection…

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AStateful inspection firewall
BCircuit-level firewall
CApplication-level firewall
DSwitch-level firewall

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A stateful firewall is a network firewall that tracks the operating state and characteristics of network connections traversing it. The firewall is configured to distinguish legitimate packets for different types of connections. Only packets matching a known active connection (session) are allowed to pass the firewall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall

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