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  • Firewall (construction)
    Firewall (construction)
    In construction, a firewall is a fire-resistance rated wall assembly intended to slow the spread of fire from one side to the other, and are certification listed. Firewalls subdivide a building into separate fire areas, and are located in accordance with the locally applicable building code...

    , a physical barrier inside a building or vehicle, designed to limit the spread of fire, heat and structural collapse
  • Firewall
    Firewall
    Firewall may refer to:* Firewall , a physical barrier inside a building or vehicle, designed to limit the spread of fire, heat and structural collapse...

    , a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between sections of a computer network
  • Firewall (film)
    Firewall (film)
    Firewall is a 2006 action/thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job.-Plot:...

    , a 2006 action film written by Joe Forte, starring Harrison Ford
  • Firewall (novel)
    Firewall (novel)
    -Synopsis:A series of bizarre incidents sweep across Sweden; a man dies before an ATM machine, two young women slaughter an elderly taxi driver, a murder is committed aboard a Baltic Sea ferry, and a sub-station engineer makes a gruesome discovery whilst investigating the cause of a nationwide...

    , a novel by Henning Mankell, featuring Kurt Wallander
  • Firewall (Andy McNab novel)
    Firewall (Andy McNab novel)
    Firewall is a novel written by the ex-SAS member turned author Andy McNab. Released in 2000 it is the third book written about the fictional character Nick Stone.- Synopsis :...

    , a Nick Stone adventure
  • Firewall, a song by Steve Vai
    Steve Vai
    Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an Italian American instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, producer, beekeeper, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980...

     off his Real Illusions: Reflections
    Real Illusions: Reflections
    Real Illusions: Reflections is the first studio album since Steve Vai's 1999 studio release The Ultra Zone. The album was released on February 22, 2005...

     album.
  • Chinese wall
    Chinese wall
    In business, a Chinese wall or firewall is an information barrier implemented within a firm to separate and isolate persons who make investment decisions from persons who are privy to undisclosed material information which may influence those decisions...

    , a zone of non-communication between distinct sections of a business, in order to prevent conflicts of interest
  • Great Firewall - China's internet censorship firewall
  • The Alberta Agenda
    Alberta Agenda
    The Alberta Agenda is a loosely-organized political movement initiated by a letter written by prominent Albertans, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and 2006 Alberta PC leadership candidate Ted Morton, urging Albertan Premier Ralph Klein to fully exercise Alberta's constitutional powers...

    , also known as the Alberta Firewall, a political proposal for the Canadian province
  • An episode of the computer animated series ReBoot
    ReBoot
    ReBoot is a Canadian CGI-animated action-adventure television series that originally aired from 1994 to 2001. It was produced by Vancouver-based production company Mainframe Entertainment, and created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace, with the visuals designed by Brendan...

    titled Firewall.