The purpose of egress filtering is to stop attack packets from entering the firm's internal network.

• A. True
• B. Sometimes
• C. Not Applicable
• D. False

Answer: (D)

Egress filtering focuses on traffic leaving your network, not what comes in. It enforces policies for outbound connections, helps prevent data exfiltration, and can stop internal hosts from communicating with unauthorized external destinations. Because its role is to regulate outbound traffic, it does not stop attack packets from entering the firm’s network—that job belongs to inbound filtering (ingress filtering) at the perimeter or firewall. So the statement is not correct; egress filtering is about outbound traffic, while inbound protection is handled by ingress controls.