Automated Firewall Analytics

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of automated firewall policy analysis for designing, configuring and managing distributed firewalls in large-scale enterpriser networks. It presents methodologies, techniques and tools for researchers as well as professionals to understand the challenges and improve the state-of-the-art of managing firewalls systematically in both research and application domains. Chapters explore set-theory, managing firewall configuration globally and consistently, access control list with encryption, and authentication such as IPSec policies. The author also reveals a high-level service-oriented firewall configuration language (called FLIP) and a methodology and framework for designing optimal distributed firewall architecture. The chapters illustrate the concepts, algorithms, implementations and case studies for each technique. Automated Firewall Analytics: Design, Configuration and Optimization is appropriate for researchers and professionals working with firewalls. Advanced-level students in computer science will find this material suitable as a secondary textbook or reference.

Comprehensive study of automated firewall policy analysis for designing, configuring and managing distributed firewalls Provides methodologies, techniques, tools and case studies Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of firewall policy

Inhalt
Classification and Discovery of Firewalls Policy Anomalies.- Modeling and Verification of Firewall and IPSec Policies using Binary Decision Diagrams.- Specification and Refinement of a Conflict-Free Distributed Firewall Configuration Language.- Design and Configuration of Firewall Architecture Under Risk, Usability and Cost Constraints.- Dynamic Firewall Configuration Optimization.