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Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded 5.1 End User Training

whitepaper The webcast outlines how Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows XP Embedded provides a multilayered security approach that includes an application-centric firewall, application control, intrusion prevention and detection, antivirus and policy...

Tags: embedded systems

[18 May 2008]

Detection and Removal of Firewall Misconfiguration

whitepaper To police network traffic, firewalls must be configured with a set of filtering rules. The existence of errors in this set is very likely to degrade the network security policy. The management of these configuration errors is a serious and complex...

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

Trie-Based Policy Representations for Network Firewalls

whitepaper These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner. Unfortunately packet filtering in this fashion can result in significant traffic delays, which is problematic for...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Network Firewall Policy Tries

whitepaper These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner. Unfortunately packet filtering in this fashion can result in significant traffic delays, which is problematic for...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement

whitepaper This paper presents a framework for automatic testing of the firewall policy enforcement or implementation using efficient random traffic and policy generation techniques. Generating random traffic to test the functionality of firewall matching is...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

On the Safety and Efficiency of Firewall Policy Deployment

whitepaper It show that naive deployment approaches can easily create a temporary security hole by permitting illegal traffic, or interrupt service by rejecting legal traffic during the deployment. Firewall policy management is challenging and error-prone.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Policy Segmentation for Intelligent Firewall Testing

whitepaper This paper propose a novel firewall testing technique using policy-based segmentation of the traffic address space, which can intelligently adapt the test traffic generation to target potential erroneous regions in the firewall input space.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Change-Impact Analysis of Firewall Policies

whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Analysis of Firewall Policy Rules Using Data Mining Techniques

whitepaper These firewall rules are mostly custom-designed and hand-written thus in constant need for tuning and validation, due to the dynamic nature of the traffic characteristics, ever-changing network environment and its market demands.

Tags: firewalls

[06 May 2008]

Diverse Firewall Design

whitepaper An error in a firewall policy either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not...

Tags: firewalls

[04 May 2008]

Formal Verification of Firewall Policies

whitepaper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic...

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

Firewall Design Principles

whitepaper Whenever domains intersect, there is a potential need for security to control traffic allowed into the network. Firewall technology can be used to filter this traffic. A network security domain is a contiguous region of a network that operates...

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Internet Firewalls

whitepaper 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. As it is infeasible to examine and test each firewall for all possible...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Securing Your Messaging Traffic - Comprehensive Protection for Your Microsoft ISA Servers (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast, presented by McAfee, explains the security issues that pose a threat to the messaging and Internet traffic, and the options available to filter the valuable information, help optimize resources, increase productivity and prevent...

Tags: application servers

[12 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Nicholas Bohm, the FIPR's general counsel, said last week "the illegality stems… from the fact that the system intercepts internet traffic". The Home Office] gave an opinion, not a legal opinion, of their understanding of how the law was [to be...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Specifications of a High-Level Conflict-Free Firewall Policy Language for Multi-Domain Networks

whitepaper This proposes FLIP, a high-level firewall configuration policy language for traffic access control, to enforce security and ensure seamless configuration management. Multiple firewalls typically cooperate to provide security properties for a...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Check Point is the Right Medicine For the University of Michigan

whitepaper VPN-1 Pro ensures the security of all VPN traffic and gives UMHS one central point of control. VPN-1 Pro also provides easy One-Click VPN deployment and security management architecture (SMART), which enables all elements of a security policy to be...

Tags: security applications, health, vpn, point

[10 Apr 2008]

Step-by-Step Guide to Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)

whitepaper This guide is intended to cover only local computer IPSec policy that uses IPSec transport (not tunneling) to secure traffic between a source computer and a destination computer. It does not cover using Group Policy in the Active Directory to...

Tags: tcp - ip, policy, cover, ipsec

[24 Mar 2008]

IPS Vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath

whitepaper Although IPS and IDS both examine traffic looking for attacks, there are critical differences. IPS and IDS both detect malicious or unwanted traffic. But an IPS is an in-line device designed for automatic enforcement of network policy, whereas an...

Tags: network security

[28 Feb 2008]

Audiocast: Restoring Network Stability: Practicing Effective E-mail Management

whitepaper To effectively address these concerns, organizations must reduce the volume of illegitimate traffic at the gateway, manage legitimate messages, and integrate efforts with a variety of new systems, processes and workflows.

Tags: network security, mail, productivity, stability

[12 Dec 2007]

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