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Network cloaking is a technology that makes a protected network invisible to malicious external traffic, while allowing complete and uninterrupted access for legitimate users.
Network cloaking is accomplished via a promiscuous bridge with firewall functionality, located in front of the internet firewall. All non-encrypted Internet traffic entering a network is inspected for malicious code, prohibited behaviors, malformed packets, and hack attempts. The network cloaking function immediately drops all packets from an offending IP address, including the initial request packets, and responses from the protected network. To the perpetrator, the protected network simply appears to be unused, or invisible.
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