What is Difference between firewall and personal firewall?

Answer 1

A firewall is a security system—hardware, software, or both—that controls and filters network traffic between different networks, usually protecting an entire organization or network.

A personal firewall is software installed on an individual device (like a PC or laptop) to monitor and control its incoming and outgoing traffic, protecting that single device rather than a whole network.

In short:

Firewall → Protects a network

Personal firewall → Protects a single computer or device

Answer 2

The difference between personel firewall and business firewall is that 1. personel firewall are using personel level such as laptop,desktop whereas business firewall we are using in a corporate world. 2. In personel firewall, we are not using appropriate antivirus that can prtect my lease line and In business firewall we are using antivirus that protects our lease line and ensuring us that data has been encrypted according to our Operating system.

Answer 3

Firewall is broad term. Where personal firewall is mainly software firewall which is installed on Users desktop computer. Many Operating systems have built-in firewall Installed.