Corporate Firewall

Firewall software monitors, restricts and regulates networks connections and communications on the perimeter of a private network with a public network. Often firewalls are used within organizations to partition traffic or data flows based on a categorization of information risk. Restricting traffic from potentially hostile connections on the internet is the major function of most corporate firewalls.

Additionally, it is quite common that access from corporate client connections to the internet are permissioned on a service by service (and often, client by client) basis as well. In this case, if a Stanford University user who is using such a corporate network connection to access Stanford University network services wishes to connect across this firewall, the relevant networking ports must be allowed along with their associated transport type.

NOTE: Requesting this access be more-than-a-little controversial to the office in charge of administering this firewall and enforcing corporate information security. They are responsible for corporate security and are the final arbitors of this type of access.