Firewalls: Modeling and Management

Security in computer networks is a very complex task especially if it is required to separate a corporate network from public Internet or to divide a company's intranet into multiple zones with different security requirements. The network security policy that describes these security requirements is primarily presented in a high-level form. Also, the network security policy is enforced using some low-level security mechanisms; mainly firewall technology. There is a big gap between these two levels of the network security policy making the transformation, the maintenance, the verification or even the modification of the policy is a very hard task. This work helps to understand this problem. Also, the work proposes typical solution to that problem. ConfigMaker: a firewall management toolkit is proposed in this work.

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.. is an Assistant Prof. in the dept. of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Eng., Mansoura Univ., Egypt. His research interests include firewall management, vulnerability assessment and modeling, security policy modeling, Biometrics, Ad Hoc networks, and VANet. He holds a Ph.D. from Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak.