While conducting a penetration test, the tester determines that there is a firewall between the tester's machine and the target machine. The firewall is only monitoring TCP handshaking of packets at the session layer of the OSI model. Which type of firewall is the tester trying to traverse?

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While conducting a penetration test, the tester determines that there is a firewall between the tester's machine and the target machine. The firewall is only monitoring TCP handshaking of packets at the session layer of the OSI model.  Which type of firewall is the tester trying to traverse?

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A circuit-level gateway firewall monitors TCP handshaking at the session layer, allowing or denying traffic based on session state and connection rules.

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