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(HTTP). HTTP is used for accessing and sending web pages on the Internet. Justifying the use of
this protocol is not a problem, as any organization desiring relevance must have some sort of access
to or presence on the Internet. e problem is that not every website on the Internet is necessary
to access. In fact, your organization will undoubtedly want to block access to the majority of the
Internet for a large percentage of your users. It would be useless if Jackie and Christine’s computers
had the X port blocked so that they could not play Doom during work hours, only to have them
able to access Doom through an online website.
e answer to this quandary is a properly configured firewall. ro