Stateful vs Stateless Firewalls - You NEED to know the difference

[@siraj-7397]

As a Networks instructor, I see that this video is helpful and professional. 20/20

[@LearnCantrill]

thanks !! glad you like it.

[@Just-Browsing-123]

I've been in network security for sometime now, and this is one of the best ways I've seen this explained. Great work!

[@brynjellis]

I've looked up this stateless vs stateful subject many times before and nowhere has it been explained better than in this video! Brilliant job, thank you!

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad it was helpful!

[@blackie5566]

I second that, one of the best explanations!!! Thank you so much

[@seetsamolapo5600]

- When you make a connection using TCP each side is sending IP packets to each other. TCP is layer 4 protocol which runs on top of IP and adds error correction and ports. - Each connection by a user via client to an application on a server consists of two parts- the request (initiation) and the response which are two parts of the same interaction - client picks a temporary (ephemeral) port as its source which has a value between 1024 and 65536. Then the client initiates a connection to the server using a well known destination port 443 - https. Well known ports are associated with popular applications. This is the request part. The client asking for something from the server. - Next the server responds with some type of data. The server connects to the source IPof the request which is the clien. It connects to the client's port which is an ephemeral port. This is the response part. It is from the server on that well known port 443 to the client on the ephemeral port chosen by the client - It is is this values that uniquely identify a connection - source Ip and source port, and destination IP and destination port. - Each interaction/connection comprises of a request part and response component. The directionality of the transmission depends on the node's perspective. The direction of a request or response isnt always outbound or inbound. There are outgoing requests, outgoing responses, incoming requests and incoming responses. Some servers can have all, like web servers, where the both initiate and accept connections. For every connection start with the request and the response will be the inverse - When the client initiates a request, packets are sent to the server with a source IP and source port of the client and destination IP and destination port of the server. This request is an outbound request from the client perspective and an inbound request from the server perspective - Firewalls require consideration of perspective - directionality when defining rules for connections. The response is always inverse direction to the request - source IP, source port and destination IP and destination port switch. - Stateless firewalls see the request and response as separate activities. Allowing or denying them is done individually so there are two separate rules required one for the request and another for the response. Therefore more management overhead with more rules required per connection - The request component is always going to be to a well know port. The response is always going to be from a server to a client going to a random ephemeral port chosen by the client's OS. And because the firewall is stateless it has no way of knowing which specific port the response is destined for. Therefore in the firewall rules traffic in the full range of ephemeral ports must be allowed which isn't ideal for security engineers. - Stateful firewalls are intelligent enough to identify the response component from it's request component. By comparing the ports and IP of the request and response and if they're the same it can link them to each other. Therefore, for a specific request the stateful firewall automatically knows which data is the response and automatically allows it. Therefore only one rule required for stateful firewalls which is for allowing/denying the request and the response is automatically allowed/denied significantly reducing admin overhead. In addition there's no need to allow traffic for the entire ephemeral port range as the firewall knows the specific ephemeral port for the connection

[@learnwell6091]

The last two minutes were pure gold. But to reach it, you have to dig through the first 12 minutes!!

[@vladislavkaras491]

The prehistory you made before explaining actual firewalls is brilliant! Thanks for the video!

[@Work-wj8wv]

video starts at 8:20 if you already know the basics of what a firewall is.

[@salkeldeliaoe]

Brilliant video, broken down each and every part very detailed and straight to the point.

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad you liked it.

[@Gsfkdhkjhgfs]

Very clear explanation and incredibly helpful. One thing that still confuses me is the ‘overhead’ part which you say is lower on stateful firewalls. Since they record the state of a connection whereas a stateless firewall doesn’t; it’s more intuitive for me to say that a stateless firewall therefore needs less memory and has less overhead as a consequence. But I’m probably mistaken one concept for the other.

[@LearnCantrill]

no you are correct.

[@ShrutiSharma-xu6qs]

Best explanation ever. Clarity pro max!

[@TopYoutubeComments]

Thanks for the amazing work you're putting in !

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@shitshow_1]

Well articulately explained. Also quickly refreshed some of the Network layer concepts before diving into the topic, this is something I always wanted.

[@ischozar7465]

Good slides, good explanations, good video. Thanks for making me smarter.

[@LearnCantrill]

glad it helps :)

[@Kumararpit44]

Literally, brilliant way to teach. Thanks ❤

[@jonathantx]

Excellent Explanation, I'm still learning a lot but this is spot on and really breaks it down for me to understand. Thank you.

[@gangisandeepreddy]

I think AWS security group acts like a Stateful firewall? Am I correct?

[@LearnCantrill]

correct !! , with some additional enhancements ... since security groups can reference other security groups and themselves :)

[@danilomendes2991]

What a great explanation! Great job!!

[@LearnCantrill]

Thanks Danilo :) please like, share and subscribe (*shudders at sounding like a youtuber*)

[@chuckbalogh296]

Excellent video and explanation. You have cleared up so many topics for me.

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad it was helpful!

[@whatshatnin4572]

Hey There. Im taking your AWS Solutions Architect - Professional course. It has been a great experience. I am stuck on one demo because I need to increase my vCPU limit to create an EC2. Currently my vCPU limit is 8. How do I increase it and how much should i increase it

[@jayydon]

Great video, subscribed and liked. Just curious wouldn't modern systems only use the ranges of 49152 to 65535 as their ephemeral ports?

[@deepshah737]

what a fantastic explanation along with slides. Thank u very much

[@Enzo-sp3bf]

Oh this explaination is excellent and helps a lot

[@mmmm-gs4mc]

The explanation was hell stateful, Thanks Bro

[@WoutiecomNL]

Great animation and explanation. Thanks!

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LearnCantrill]

Thanks :) glad it helped.

[@brunomarques8070]

Very simple explanation. Thank you!

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MegaNatebreezy]

Great video! I am looking to block inbound SMB port 445 across Windows workstations in my environment. If I leave workstations with the ability to make an outbound SMB connection to a printer server and allow the print/file server inbound SMB allow access, will the computers still be able to communicate with the server back and forth (outbound + inbound) even though there is a deny rule on incoming SMB connections? How will the Firewall know which to choose since the rules are almost conflicting, is it going to choose the automatic deny?

[@lonefloppa]

Great Video understandable.You are doing well at teaching

[@greenpixel_]

Fantastic explanation!

[@franciscojosegalan3135]

Great job, very educational!

[@LearnCantrill]

Thanks !!! glad you find it valuable.

[@Gestr3482]

Very good explanation

[@00infinity39]

This is video is 10/10 🎉🎉 appreciate the effort ❤ U got a new sub

[@Salty_Matter]

Amazing explanation. Just amazing

[@gomsg2049]

well explained..thanks a lot!

[@robertalvarez6906]

Excellent! Would you be able to point me to the "next video" that helps explain AWS State/Stateless that you mentioned?

[@brynjellis]

Yes, I was looking for this too. @LearnCantrill, could you point us in the right direction please?

[@miguelpimentel1155]

Wow, super explained recommended

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad you liked it

[@ggin2008]

super helpful. Thanks for this. What do you use to create these diagrams? If you don't mind sharing.

[@LearnCantrill]

it's not one single tool ... it would be a whole set of videos itself to show how to create them.

[@ggin2008]

@@LearnCantrill I can imagine. they are very good and it would awesome if you could demonstrate it some day. thank you so much for all the work you do. really helpful and high quality content.

[@NostalgistGuy]

one of the best. thanks

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad you like it!

[@TheNitesh101]

Nice articulated 😊

[@LearnCantrill]

Thanks! 🙂

[@kodak9521]

Thanks again for the great video 😀😀😀

[@LearnCantrill]

Thanks for watching!

[@xtoefield]

holy hell!! this ws explained very well. subbed!!

[@LearnCantrill]

thanks, glad you like it.

[@sfletcherjones]

Very well explained video and excellently well illustrated to boot - I would say one thing and thats the use of the ephemeral port numbers which are the same as the IP of the target which threw me for a second as confusing but maybe might mislead others into thinking the port number somehow defaults to the IP of the target which it wouldnt i suspect? Loved the video as my go to explainer for people and myself when i have to jog the grey matter.

[@LearnCantrill]

that's not a bad idea actually.. i might tweak that in the next version. Thanks.

[@kingtop171]

It’d be a crime to follow, like and comment. Thank you for a Job well done!

[@A.Sandeep-18]

Brilliant 👍

[@omribenhur6954]

you are the man baruch hashem

[@LearnCantrill]

glad you like :)

[@rahulpurimetla1152]

Super presentation

[@LearnCantrill]

Thank you

[@Rgroose]

great, thanks

[@LearnCantrill]

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[@DrDoktor60]

Satisfactory ❤

[@silverbell6160]

Excellent, thank you

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad it helped

[@sfletcherjones]

Thanks

[@LearnCantrill]

thank you !! :)

[@jesiotra6246]

great video!

[@LearnCantrill]

Thanks!

[@kimshatteen222]

Thank you

[@LearnCantrill]

Glad you like.

[@danielc4698]

good video, but to put it clearer , if the packet go to the router, INBOUND, if they leave OUTBOUND. it is the perspective of the router.

[@LearnCantrill]

how is that clearer? you've just used a router vs a client/server ?

[@TheMbudzeni]

Then why would people opt to use stateless firewalls instead of stateful firewalls?

[@LearnCantrill]

in most cases you wouldn't - it's an older tech. it gives you a little more control .. you can control both sides of traffic flow.

[@mdgm88]

With AWS security groups (stateful) apply to things like instances (e.g. EC2, RDS) and ELB. NACL (stateless) apply at the subnet level. You’d probably always use security groups where you can, and use NACL in addition if you need a bit of extra control e.g. to block all pings to a subnet.

[@jiho1960]

Legend!

[@LearnCantrill]

thanks, glad you like.

[@akashagarwal6390]

Nobody does it better...

[@devwebj7686]

waiting for layer 6 and 7

[@LearnCantrill]

Stay tuned.

[@dextruded6020]

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[@c.s1055]

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[@priyankamahesh6944]

WTF 😳 my brain exploded , couldn’t understand anything. Pls simplify next time.

[@LearnCantrill]

This is the simplified version. But there is other stuff you need to understand first. Maybe check out my networking fundamentals series.

[@c.s1055]

Me too