Firewall

Firewall may refer to:

• Firewall (construction), a barrier inside a building or vehicle, designed to limit the spread of fire, heat and structural collapse
• Firewall (engine), the part of a vehicle that separates the engine compartment from the rest of the vehicle
• Firewall (computing), a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts
• Firewall (physics), a hypothetical phenomenon where a freely falling observer spontaneously burns up at the horizon of a black hole

Media

• Firewall (film), a 2006 thriller film written by Joe Forte, starring Harrison Ford
• Firewall (Andy McNab novel), a Nick Stone adventure
• Firewall (Henning Mankell novel), a 1998 novel by Henning Mankell, featuring Kurt Wallander
• "Firewall", a song by Steve Vai from the album Real Illusions: Reflections
• "Firewall", an episode from the computer animated series ReBoot

People

• Firewall, the alias of Lange (musician) (born 1974)
• Firewall (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe

See also

• The Alberta Agenda, also known as the Alberta Firewall, a political proposal for the Canadian province
• Anonymous web browsing, browsing the World Wide Web while hiding the user's IP address and any other personally identifiable information from the websites that one is visiting
• Great Firewall, China's internet censorship firewall
• Chinese wall, a zone of non-communication between distinct sections of a business, in order to prevent conflicts of interest
• Personal firewall, a very popular form of firewall designed to protect personal computers
• Wall of Fire (disambiguation)