Firewall Test

Welcome to Test My Firewall, a security site designed to help provide free and easy to use web security tools that allow you to perform you own firewall test and security audit. Anyone can use the security tools found on this site to test all types of security, from a personal computer firewall to an industrial strength system.

You'll find a ton of information about testing firewalls, identifying processes and web security in general, all organized and presented in an easy to understand format.

Not only will you prevent loss of data by testing your firewall, you can save thousands by learning how to test your own security, whether you are a home computer user or a corporate security employee looking to use the same tools the pros use.

Firewall

If you're not familiar with a firewall, it's simply a method of protecting your computer from unauthorized access; this is accomplished by blocking and / or restricting ports which your computer uses to communicate with the internet. Trojans, viruses and other programs look for missing patches and will open a port to listen for commands from hackers. Test My Firewall helps you locate these open ports by identifying your open ports using a Firewall Test.

Web Security

It is said that if you connect a computer to the internet without a firewall, it will be compromised within 20 minutes. Test My Firewall put this to a test and found that within 10 minutes, viruses started looking for missing patches. Although it took 15 hours before a hacker actually broke into the system, it still demonstrates the importance of web security and a good firewall test.

Security patches are issued on what seems like a daily basis. Miss just one, and your system could be exploited without your knowledge. Testing your firewall helps to verify that a program has not entered your system and opened a new port.

Test My Firewall

If you have any questions about firewall testing, processes or web security in general, please do not hesitate to post a comment; we do our best to respond to security related questions, but chances are others will chime in and provide a solution when you post your question by leaving a comment.