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The firewall helps protect the device by monitoring incomming and outgoing network traffic. Firewalls serve as a first line of defense in network security, establishing a barrier between trusted internal networks and untrusted external networks, such as the Internet. Newer devices tend to come with the firewall turned off. To ensure the firewall is on so it can do its work follow the following steps below.

Steps for MacOS

Steps for Microsoft Windows

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1. Open Settings by either:

   1. clicking the Apple Logo in the top left-hand corner of the screen
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   2. Opening Finder, going to Applications and finding Settings.
      

2. In Settings, click Network on the left-hand bar. In the Network settings you will see the Firewall Icon, click on the arrow button beside Firewall.

   

   1. If toggle is turned on and not greyed out, there no need to go further as the Firewall is already turned on and functioning.
      

      

   2. If toggle is greyed out, toggle the Firewall on by clicking on the switch beside Firewall.
      

      

Windows 10/11

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