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Whitepapers
Cisco Data Center Services Node Architecture
Jun 2010
The Cisco Data Center Service Node (DSN) is a new product offering from Cisco that complements the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches in the data center. Cisco DSN is the platform of choice to host...
Provided by Cisco
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White Papers
Firewall Evolution
Sep 2010
The virtual enterprise has brought with it new ways of working, a huge expansion of the footprint of the network and erosion of the perimeter, rendering traditional firewall solutions...
Provided by Nemertes Research
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Whitepapers
Cisco Threat Defense for Borderless Networks
Jun 2010
Traditional security techniques are unable to respond to threats that can arise from anywhere. To protect today's borderless networks, IT managers must adapt by implementing faster, smarter...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Fast, Cheap and in Control: A Step Towards Pain Free Security!
Sep 2008
This paper describes the experiences with a firewall analysis tool and metrics that one have designed and used to help manage large production rule sets. Firewall rule sets typically become...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Targeted Trojans: The silent danger of a clever malware
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Practical Covert Channel Implementation Through a Timed Mix-Firewall
May 2008
The ability to communicate covertly through Mix-firewalls has been discussed in previous work. This paper discusses the issues of implementing this theoretical construction in a prototype system....
Provided by University Of Florida, Gainesville
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White Papers
Fast Firewall Implementations for Software-Based Routers
Jan 2010
Routers must perform packet classification at high speeds to efficiently implement functions such as firewalls. The classification can be based on an arbitrary number of prefix arid range fields...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Behind the Great Firewall: The Internet and Democratization in China
Sep 2009
The Internet has changed China profoundly. For the government, the Internet offers prospects to develop economics, education, and technology. For the public, the Internet provides unprecedented...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Information Game of Public Firewall Rules
Aug 2009
Firewalls are among the most important components in network security. Traditionally, the rules of the firewall are kept private under the assumption that privacy of the rule set makes attacks on...
Provided by Albion College
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White Papers
Towards Optimal Firewall Rule Ordering Utilizing Directed Acyclical Graphs
May 2009
Firewalls enforce a security policy by inspecting packets arriving or departing a network. This is often accomplished by sequentially comparing the policy rules with the header of an arriving...
Provided by Wake Forest University
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White Papers
Vulnerability Analysis and Management of an Internet Firewall
Apr 2007
Firewalls protect a trusted network from an untrusted network by filtering traffic according to a specified security policy. A diverse set of firewalls is being used today based on the security...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Firewall Cracking and Security
Dec 2008
Firewalls are programs that were designed to protect computers from unwanted attacks and intrusions. Wikipedia defines a firewall as an integrated collection of security measures designed to...
Provided by Montclair State University
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White Papers
Description and Analysis of Embedded Firewall Techniques
Dec 2009
With the turn of this century, many researchers started showing interest in Embedded Firewall (EF) implementations. These are not the usual firewalls that are used as checkpoints at network...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A General Framework for Benchmarking Firewall Optimization Techniques
Jul 2009
Firewalls are among the most pervasive network security mechanisms, deployed extensively from the borders of networks to end systems. The complexity of modern firewall policies has raised the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Traffic Mining Techniques
Dec 2009
The firewall is usually the first line of defense in ensuring network security for an organization. However, the management of firewalls has proved to be complex, error-prone, and costly for many...
Provided by Cyber Defense & Network Assurability (CyberDNA) Center
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Case Studies
C.F. Sharp - Securing Its Network for Improved Operations
Jan 2011
C.F. Sharp Holdings, Inc., a member of the C.F. Sharp Group, spared no expense in securing the company's network system. C.F. Sharp Holdings, Inc. needed a network security solution to protect its...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Deflating the Big Bang: Fast and Scalable Deep Packet Inspection With Extended Finite Automata
Aug 2008
Deep packet inspection is playing an increasingly important role in the design of novel network services. Regular expressions are the language of choice for writing signatures, but standard DFA or...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches
Aug 2010
Historically, the most common use of the network-based hardware load balancer and its modern incarnation, the Application Delivery Controller (ADC), has been to provide high availability,...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Fault Localization for Firewall Policies
Jul 2009
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. Ensuring the correctness of firewall policies through testing is...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
First Step Towards Automatic Correction of Firewall Policy Faults
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors make three major contributions. First, they propose the first comprehensive fault model for firewall policies including five types of faults. For each type of fault,...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Research of Cooperation of IPSec and Firewall
Aug 2010
IPSec provides security services at the IP layer and ensures the packets transmitted safely in Internet by authenticating and encrypting. As IPSec encapsulates some important information of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
The Design and Implementation of Transparent Application-Layer Filtering Platform
Oct 2008
For a long time, firewalls have played an important role in network security, protecting many of them against the attacks of malicious users. The implementation of firewalls can be classified into...
Provided by Yuan Ze University
-
White Papers
Improved Method of Packet Filtering
May 2009
Packet filtering technique is widely-used in host firewalls and it often needs setting filter rules by user. The paper presents an improved method of packet filtering. In the method, packets are...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Artificial Neural Network Based Web Application Firewall for SQL Injection
May 2010
In recent years with the rapid development of Internet and the Web, more and more web applications have been deployed in many fields and organizations such as finance, military, and government....
Provided by University of Reading
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White Papers
Fortification for P2P Grid Computing Used for Resource Discovery
Sep 2010
Grid computing provides an effective infrastructure for massive computation among flexible and dynamic collection of individual system for resource discovery. The major challenge for grid...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Architecture of a Identity Based Firewall System
Jan 2011
Classic firewall systems are built to filter traffic based on IP addresses, source and destination ports and protocol types. The modern networks have grown to a level where the possibility for...
Provided by Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
-
White Papers
Tamper-Resistant, Application-Aware Blocking of Malicious Network Connections
Jul 2008
Application-level firewalls block traffic based on the process that is sending or receiving the network flow. They help detect bots, worms, and backdoors that send or receive malicious packets...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Path-Based Access Control for Enterprise Networks
Jun 2008
Enterprise networks are ubiquitious and increasingly complex. The mechanisms for defining security policies in these networks have not kept up with the advancements in networking technology. In...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
DIPLOMA: Distributed Policy Enforcement Architecture for MANETs
Apr 2010
Lack of well-defined defense perimeter in MANETs prevents the use traditional firewalls, and requires the security to be implemented in a distributed manner. The authors recently introduced a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Deny-by-Default Distributed Security Policy Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Aug 2009
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are increasingly employed in tactical military and civil rapid-deployment networks, including emergency rescue operations and ad hoc disaster-relief networks....
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Adaptive Optimization of Packet Filtering Devices Performance Ensuring a Conflict-Free Network Configuration
Jul 2008
Security rules management in firewall and security gateway is a hard and error prone task as administrators must correctly implement and update a large amount of policies especially when rapid...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Adaptive Early Packet Filtering for Defending Firewalls Against DoS Attacks
May 2009
A major threat to data networks is based on the fact that some traffic can be expensive to classify and filter as it will undergo a longer than average list of filtering rules before being...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Secure Walking GPS: A Secure Localization and Key Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mar 2010
In many applications of wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes are manually deployed in hostile environments where an attacker can disrupt the localization service and tamper with legitimate...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Firewall Policy Queries
Jun 2009
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is to examine each...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Dimension-Independent Table-Based Firewalls
Nov 2008
A firewall matches network packets to applicable policy rules based on packet dimensions (i.e., packet fields such as source and destination IP addresses). The efficiency with which firewalls...
Provided by University of South Florida
-
White Papers
FAME: A Firewall Anomaly Management Environment
Oct 2010
Firewalls are a widely deployed security mechanism to ensure the security of private networks in most businesses and institutions. The effectiveness of security protection provided by a firewall...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Podcasts
Firewall Transversal in Communications Server 2007
Apr 2008
The ability to transverse firewalls is very important to how Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows VoIP calls in a secure manner. In this podcast, the speakers talk in depth about the...
Provided by Microsoft Corporation
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White Papers
A Distributed Firewall and Active Response Architecture Providing Preemptive Protection
Mar 2008
Firewalls provide very good network security features. However, classical perimeter firewall deployments suffer from limitations due to complex network topologies and the inability to completely...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Bit Vector Algorithms Enabling High-Speed and Memory-Efficient Firewall Blacklisting
Mar 2009
In a world of increasing Internet connectivity coupled with increasing computer security risks, security conscious network applications implementing blacklisting technology are becoming very...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
On Generation of Firewall Log Status Reporter (SRr) Using Perl
Jul 2009
Computer System Administration and Network Administration are few such areas where Practical Extraction Reporting Language (Perl) has robust utilization these days apart from Bioinformatics. The...
Provided by Iowa State University
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White Papers
Behind the Great Firewall: The Internet and Democratization in China
Sep 2009
The Internet has changed China profoundly. For the government, the Internet offers prospects to develop economics, education, and technology. For the public, the Internet provides unprecedented...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
Fast Firewall Implementations for Software-Based Routers
Jan 2010
Routers must perform packet classification at high speeds to efficiently implement functions such as firewalls. The classification can be based on an arbitrary number of prefix arid range fields...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Practical Covert Channel Implementation Through a Timed Mix-Firewall
May 2008
The ability to communicate covertly through Mix-firewalls has been discussed in previous work. This paper discusses the issues of implementing this theoretical construction in a prototype system....
Provided by University Of Florida, Gainesville
-
White Papers
Targeted Trojans: The silent danger of a clever malware
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will...
Provided by Symantec
-
Whitepapers
Fast, Cheap and in Control: A Step Towards Pain Free Security!
Sep 2008
This paper describes the experiences with a firewall analysis tool and metrics that one have designed and used to help manage large production rule sets. Firewall rule sets typically become...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
Whitepapers
Cisco Threat Defense for Borderless Networks
Jun 2010
Traditional security techniques are unable to respond to threats that can arise from anywhere. To protect today's borderless networks, IT managers must adapt by implementing faster, smarter...
Provided by Cisco
-
White Papers
Firewall Evolution
Sep 2010
The virtual enterprise has brought with it new ways of working, a huge expansion of the footprint of the network and erosion of the perimeter, rendering traditional firewall solutions...
Provided by Nemertes Research
-
Whitepapers
Cisco Data Center Services Node Architecture
Jun 2010
The Cisco Data Center Service Node (DSN) is a new product offering from Cisco that complements the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches in the data center. Cisco DSN is the platform of choice to host...
Provided by Cisco
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White Papers
Deploying a Flexible School Infrastructure for the Digital Age
Oct 2010
This paper looks at an achievable, cost-effective "good, better, best" model for education infrastructures, all based on common configurations in today's schools. The model recommended by Intel is...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: Creating Cross-Firewall Connections With Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus (Level 300)
Sep 2010
Need to connect applications that are running inside different firewalls? Perhaps the applications are in different data centers within the same organization, or perhaps one of the applications is...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
UniFirst Reaps Significant Savings, Fosters Culture of Collaboration With Polycom Telepresence
Jan 2010
UniFirst is a leading supplier of uniforms, work apparel, and related business products to companies throughout North America. UniFirst wanted to bring a widely dispersed team together for...
Provided by Polycom
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White Papers
Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls With User-Generated Content
Jun 2010
Oppressive regimes and even democratic governments restrict Internet access. Existing anti-censorship systems often require users to connect through proxies, but these systems are relatively easy...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Industrial Router Firewall and VPN Platform
Jan 2010
For today's Industrial Control and communications applications, the networks allowing these systems to be controlled and communicate are growing larger and more complex. Designing a network built...
Provided by Korenix-USA
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White Papers
Barracuda Web Application Firewall Vs. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
Feb 2010
As hackers moved from attacking the network to attacking the deployed applications, a category of products known as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) emerged as a solution to provide the...
Provided by Barracuda Networks
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Case Study: International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMMAT)
Oct 2009
The British led IMATT has approximately 100 international staff based in Sierra Leone where they provide the government with security. The locally serviced IMATT IT system suffered a catastrophic...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Whitepapers
LotusLive Engage Security whitepaper: Why is security a competitive differentiator for LotusLive and LotusLive Engage?
Aug 2010
Security is a competitive differentiator for IBM's LotusLive and LotusLive Engage. Engage's business-ready security is based on a deep understanding of security and privacy best practices, in both...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Covering Corporate Assets Made Simple With 3Com SuperStack 3 Firewall
Jan 2010
The New Technology Group (TNTG) provides hardware, software, networking solutions and IT support to companies throughout London. As the company grew and its European expansion plans began to take...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Major Urban Utility Selects McAfee Firewall Enterprise Edition to Protect Critical Control Systems
Feb 2009
Utility companies in major urban centers have many competing risks to balance. They wanted to Protect the Control Center from attacks with reliable, easy to deploy, manageable and flexible...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
McAfee UTM Firewall Enables Evansville ARC to Create a Network of Support for Indiana's Disabled
Mar 2009
Evansville ARC is a Non-profit organization founded to promote personal and professional development and independence for disabled people. The organization wanted to connect staff members at 16...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Ameresco Relies on UTM Firewall to Safeguard, Access, and Control Equipment and Data at Remote Plants
Jul 2009
Ameresco is the largest independent provider of energy optimization services and renewable energy plants in North America. The company wanted dispersed plant locations have no onsite IT support,...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
PlantCML Prepares for Next-Generation 9-1-1 Emergency Services by Protecting VoIP-Based Call Centers
Feb 2009
EADS North America Company is a North America's leading provider of crisis communications and emergency response solutions and services. They want to establish a platform for secure managed...
Provided by McAfee
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Case Studies
Utility Overhauls Network Defenses to Boost Control and Visibility
Jul 2008
Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation (JOEMC) wanted to protect network against malicious threats and implement tighter controls over third-party vendor access. The challenge was to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Building a Safer, Smarter State Government
Jan 2008
The state of Oregon is committed to improving the quality of life for all of its citizens. The state of Oregon wanted to enhance network reliability to keep critical government services available...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Building a Secure, Reliable College Network Community
Jan 2008
Making higher education opportunities accessible to all citizens is a top priority for the State of Mississippi. The state's 15 community and junior colleges are dedicated to providing affordable,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Community Bank Builds Proactive Protection Against Malicious Threats
Aug 2008
River City Bank wanted to protect sensitive financial data and customer information and improve visibility into real-time network security status. The challenge was to comply with strict...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
HP Case Study: Speaking Roses International, (USA)
Jan 2010
Speaking Roses International which relies heavily on e-mail daily has long faced the challenges companies worldwide confront with their e-mail services. They were exposed to all the dangerous...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Downloads
Podcast: Discover the power of IBM Rational AppScan to protect your Web applications and your business.
Jul 2010
While most companies that have Web applications perform some kind of security testing, this testing iss often inadequate - ad hoc testing of a small number of obvious attack points - or expensive...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
An XML Firewall on Embedded Network Processor
Feb 2008
Deployment of XML-based services as a central component of application integration must be done while keeping in mind services with flexible and intelligent structures for data expression and...
Provided by Tsinghua University
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Case Studies
Avg and Watchguard Partnership to Deliver a No-Compromise Gateway Anti-Virus Solution
Jan 2010
In computer systems worldwide, viruses and other forms of malware are among the leading causes of lost data, corrupted PCs, damaged applications, and loss of productivity. WatchGuard Technologies...
Provided by AVG Technologies
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Case Studies
Online Marketing Company Uses Router-Based Solutions to Improve Security
Jun 2008
ValueClick is a well known name in the field of online marketing and it serves more than 1 billion ads per day and provides affiliate marketing services to nearly half of the top 500 Web...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Jiangmen Education Network System Protects User Access With StoneGate High Availability Firewall and VPN Solution
Jan 2010
The primary aim of this case study is to focus on the contribution of StoneGate VPN Solution and firewall application in bringing out effective business solutions and providing greater...
Provided by Stonesoft
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Case Studies
PRX-5G Traffic Manager Convinces With Effective and Flexible Bandwidth Management
Feb 2010
The Technische Universität Braunschweig (University of Braunschweig- Institute of Technology) in Germany has over 2,900 University employees and 12,500 students. To keep maintenance and handling...
Provided by ipoque
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Webcasts
Cloud Based Security Services: Saving Cloud Computing Users from Evil-Doers
Jun 2010
Join Akamai and a panel of leading specialists for a discussion that delves into IT's current and future security threats. Topics include web application security, vulnerabilities, threats and...
Provided by Akamai Technologies
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Webcasts
Creating a Firewall Rule to Allow ICMPv4 Echo Requests
Mar 2010
The attendee will see how to create a firewall rule that will allow the machine to respond to a PING, (ICMPv4 Echo Request).
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Modeling and Analyzing the Effects of Firewalls and NATs in P2P Swarming Systems
Dec 2009
Many P2P systems have been designed without taking into account an important factor: a large fraction of Internet users nowadays are located behind a Network Address Translator (NAT) or a...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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White Papers
Active-Active Firewall Cluster Support in OpenBSD
Feb 2009
The OpenBSD UNIX-like operating system has developed several technologies that make it useful in the role of an IP router and packet filtering firewall. These technologies include support for...
Provided by Tokyo University of Science
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Webcasts
Seamlessly Integrate IPS Into Your Firewall
Jan 2010
Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) is a de facto standard in today's network security architecture. The new Check Point IPS Software Blade allows to easily and seamlessly integrate full IPS...
Provided by Check Point Software Technologies
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Case Studies
Secured by Check Point, International SOS Comes to the Rescue
Jan 2009
International SOS used appliances to help secure communications, but found them to be unwieldy in emergencies and remote locations. At the same time, most firewall and VPN security solutions...
Provided by Check Point Software Technologies
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Whitepapers
Understanding Web Application Security - Defending the Enterprise's New Porous Perimeter by Extending Security to the EdgeWhite Paper
Mar 2010
As enterprises move more of their business transactions online, they face the challenge of defending a perimeter that grows increasingly porous. This paper examines current trends in Web...
Provided by Akamai Technologies
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White Papers
Interactive Replication Server eBrochure
Mar 2010
Replication Server moves and synchronizes data across the enterprise to meet a host of competing challenges in the enterprise, such as heterogeneous data replication and synchronization, real-time...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
A General Framework for Benchmarking Firewall Optimization Techniques
Jul 2009
Firewalls are among the most pervasive network security mechanisms, deployed extensively from the borders of networks to end systems. The complexity of modern firewall policies has raised the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Traffic Mining Techniques
Dec 2009
The firewall is usually the first line of defense in ensuring network security for an organization. However, the management of firewalls has proved to be complex, error-prone, and costly for many...
Provided by Cyber Defense & Network Assurability (CyberDNA) Center
-
Case Studies
C.F. Sharp - Securing Its Network for Improved Operations
Jan 2011
C.F. Sharp Holdings, Inc., a member of the C.F. Sharp Group, spared no expense in securing the company's network system. C.F. Sharp Holdings, Inc. needed a network security solution to protect its...
Provided by Fujitsu
-
White Papers
Deflating the Big Bang: Fast and Scalable Deep Packet Inspection With Extended Finite Automata
Aug 2008
Deep packet inspection is playing an increasingly important role in the design of novel network services. Regular expressions are the language of choice for writing signatures, but standard DFA or...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches
Aug 2010
Historically, the most common use of the network-based hardware load balancer and its modern incarnation, the Application Delivery Controller (ADC), has been to provide high availability,...
Provided by F5 Networks
-
White Papers
Fault Localization for Firewall Policies
Jul 2009
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. Ensuring the correctness of firewall policies through testing is...
Provided by North Carolina State University
-
White Papers
First Step Towards Automatic Correction of Firewall Policy Faults
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors make three major contributions. First, they propose the first comprehensive fault model for firewall policies including five types of faults. For each type of fault,...
Provided by North Carolina State University
-
White Papers
Research of Cooperation of IPSec and Firewall
Aug 2010
IPSec provides security services at the IP layer and ensures the packets transmitted safely in Internet by authenticating and encrypting. As IPSec encapsulates some important information of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
The Design and Implementation of Transparent Application-Layer Filtering Platform
Oct 2008
For a long time, firewalls have played an important role in network security, protecting many of them against the attacks of malicious users. The implementation of firewalls can be classified into...
Provided by Yuan Ze University
-
White Papers
Improved Method of Packet Filtering
May 2009
Packet filtering technique is widely-used in host firewalls and it often needs setting filter rules by user. The paper presents an improved method of packet filtering. In the method, packets are...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Artificial Neural Network Based Web Application Firewall for SQL Injection
May 2010
In recent years with the rapid development of Internet and the Web, more and more web applications have been deployed in many fields and organizations such as finance, military, and government....
Provided by University of Reading
-
White Papers
Fortification for P2P Grid Computing Used for Resource Discovery
Sep 2010
Grid computing provides an effective infrastructure for massive computation among flexible and dynamic collection of individual system for resource discovery. The major challenge for grid...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
-
White Papers
Architecture of a Identity Based Firewall System
Jan 2011
Classic firewall systems are built to filter traffic based on IP addresses, source and destination ports and protocol types. The modern networks have grown to a level where the possibility for...
Provided by Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
-
White Papers
Tamper-Resistant, Application-Aware Blocking of Malicious Network Connections
Jul 2008
Application-level firewalls block traffic based on the process that is sending or receiving the network flow. They help detect bots, worms, and backdoors that send or receive malicious packets...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Path-Based Access Control for Enterprise Networks
Jun 2008
Enterprise networks are ubiquitious and increasingly complex. The mechanisms for defining security policies in these networks have not kept up with the advancements in networking technology. In...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
DIPLOMA: Distributed Policy Enforcement Architecture for MANETs
Apr 2010
Lack of well-defined defense perimeter in MANETs prevents the use traditional firewalls, and requires the security to be implemented in a distributed manner. The authors recently introduced a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Deny-by-Default Distributed Security Policy Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Aug 2009
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are increasingly employed in tactical military and civil rapid-deployment networks, including emergency rescue operations and ad hoc disaster-relief networks....
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Adaptive Optimization of Packet Filtering Devices Performance Ensuring a Conflict-Free Network Configuration
Jul 2008
Security rules management in firewall and security gateway is a hard and error prone task as administrators must correctly implement and update a large amount of policies especially when rapid...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Adaptive Early Packet Filtering for Defending Firewalls Against DoS Attacks
May 2009
A major threat to data networks is based on the fact that some traffic can be expensive to classify and filter as it will undergo a longer than average list of filtering rules before being...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Secure Walking GPS: A Secure Localization and Key Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mar 2010
In many applications of wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes are manually deployed in hostile environments where an attacker can disrupt the localization service and tamper with legitimate...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Firewall Policy Queries
Jun 2009
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is to examine each...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Dimension-Independent Table-Based Firewalls
Nov 2008
A firewall matches network packets to applicable policy rules based on packet dimensions (i.e., packet fields such as source and destination IP addresses). The efficiency with which firewalls...
Provided by University of South Florida
-
White Papers
FAME: A Firewall Anomaly Management Environment
Oct 2010
Firewalls are a widely deployed security mechanism to ensure the security of private networks in most businesses and institutions. The effectiveness of security protection provided by a firewall...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Podcasts
Firewall Transversal in Communications Server 2007
Apr 2008
The ability to transverse firewalls is very important to how Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows VoIP calls in a secure manner. In this podcast, the speakers talk in depth about the...
Provided by Microsoft Corporation
-
White Papers
A Distributed Firewall and Active Response Architecture Providing Preemptive Protection
Mar 2008
Firewalls provide very good network security features. However, classical perimeter firewall deployments suffer from limitations due to complex network topologies and the inability to completely...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Bit Vector Algorithms Enabling High-Speed and Memory-Efficient Firewall Blacklisting
Mar 2009
In a world of increasing Internet connectivity coupled with increasing computer security risks, security conscious network applications implementing blacklisting technology are becoming very...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Core CS & Core PS Network High-Level Security Requirements
Jan 2007
The scope of this paper is to outline cellular network operator requirements on basic principles for Core network security architecture and to provide security requirements for core network...
Provided by Mobile Network Security
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White Papers
The Margrave Tool for Firewall Analysis
Oct 2010
Writing and maintaining firewall configurations can be challenging, even for experienced system administrators. Tools that uncover the consequences of configurations and edits to them can help...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
On Generation of Firewall Log Status Reporter (SRr) Using Perl
Jul 2009
Computer System Administration and Network Administration are few such areas where Practical Extraction Reporting Language (Perl) has robust utilization these days apart from Bioinformatics. The...
Provided by Iowa State University
-
White Papers
Encounter-Based Worms: Analysis and Defense
Jun 2007
Encounter-based network is a frequently-disconnected wireless ad-hoc network requiring immediate neighbors to store and forward aggregated data for information disseminations. Using traditional...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
SPAN: A Unified Framework and Toolkit for Querying Heterogeneous Access Policies
Jul 2009
Incorrect policy configurations are a major cause of security failures in large-scale systems. Policy analyzers and testing tools can help with this, but often the tools are specific to one type...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
High Performance Firewalls in MANETs
Apr 2010
Doing route selection based in part on source addresses is a form of policy routing, which has started to receive increased amounts of attention. In this paper, the authors extend the previous...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Ruler: High-Speed Packet Matching and Rewriting on NPUs
Dec 2007
Programming specialized Network Processors (NPU) is inherently difficult. Unlike mainstream processors where architectural features such as out-of-order execution and caches hide most of the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
Defeating the Cyber Mutants: Protecting Your Business from Modern Malware
Apr 2011
Modern malware rarely strikes the same way twice. Today's malicious code rapidly mutates, bypassing traditional defences. This webcast will examine these threats and the new technology that...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
What Do Firewalls Protect? an Empirical Study of Firewalls, Vulnerabilities, and Attacks
Mar 2010
Firewalls are a cornerstone of how sites implement "Defense in depth." Many security policies assume that outside attackers must first penetrate a firewall configured to block their access. This...
Provided by UC Regents
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Whitepapers
The Modern Office and You: 5 Ways to Capitalize on Cloud Opportunities
May 2011
The age of Cloud Computing is gaining momentum. As the number of Cloud services and offerings have increased, more and more small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are taking notice. This change in...
Provided by ConnectWise
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White Papers
Firewall Configuration Errors Revisited
Nov 2009
Practically every corporation that is connected to the Internet uses firewalls as the first line of its cyber-defense. However, the protection that these firewalls provide is only as good as the...
Provided by Tel Aviv University
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White Papers
Extending Firewall Session Table to Accelerate NAT, QoS Classification and Routing
Sep 2009
Many firewall security mechanisms have evolved to mitigate the ever continuously increasing number of network attacks. Securing open and complex systems have become more and more complicated. If...
Provided by Université de Toulouse
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White Papers
On the Security of Firewall Policy Deployment
Jan 2011
Due to the sensitive nature of information transmitted during a policy deployment, the communication between management tool and firewall should be confidential. Confidentiality can be achieved by...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
Practical Development and Deployment of Covert Communication in IPV4
Jul 2008
Steganography is the science of hiding information or transmitting secret messages in a given host carrier for the purpose of enhancing value through undetectable covers. The paper focuses on the...
Provided by JATIT
