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Traditionally firewalls were the bastion of large, publicly accessible networks to keep hackers out. But in a world connected by the Internet, every machine hooked up to it becomes publicly accessible, and so it's vital that every machine is equipped to protect itself, and the network it may serve, from attack.

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Step one is to have a clear idea of what youre after (as well as how you expect the network to grow) starting with the number of users, or the number of client machines on the system. Weve based this