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by erikthorn

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I am taking a college course on Information System Security. As part of this course, we have 4 teams that are playing a form of capture the flag. Each team has a different firewall and can only use the firewall assigned. The objective is to protect a shared file on your local network with the assigned firewall. I was hoping for tips and directions on how to best implement the defense of my flag using Symantec as our firewall.

The other firewalls are McAfee, BlackIce Defender and ZoneAlarm.

Any advise?

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by inkster

Are there any other details that we should know about the project? What information are you supposed to pass between computers?

I imagine that even though you are playing Capture the Flag, that you still have to be able to pass information.

Are all of your updates applied for your OS?

And what version of the Symantec firewall do you have?

Inkster

by erikthorn

this is v2 of the product and teh flag is a .GIF that has to be kept in a shared directory. We have to protect the flag with the firewall only and not with the OS.

by erikthorn

Besides the firewall, we can use any detection software or technique we want to prevent the other teams from accessing the flag. I am running the domain controller for our group of 4 and am in charge of defense. If we can protect the flag for 4 weeks without being "hacked" by classmates, we get 100% for 1/2 the grade for the quarter.

I am using Etherpeek 5.0 to monitor the network.

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