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 ## What is Firegex?
-Firegex is a firewall that includes different functionalities, created for CTF Attack-Defence competitions that has the aim to limit or totally deny malicious traffic through the use of different kind of filters.
+Firegex is a firewall that includes different functionalities, created for CTF Attack-Defense competitions that has the aim to limit or totally deny malicious traffic through the use of different kind of filters.
 
 ## Get started firegex
 What you need is a linux machine and docker ( + docker-compose )