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Firewalls: Mahalingam Ramkumar
Firewalls: Mahalingam Ramkumar
Firewalls: Mahalingam Ramkumar
Mahalingam Ramkumar
Evolution of Networks
What is a Firewall?
A choke point
A location for monitoring security related
events
Firewall Limitations
Packet-Filtering Router
Stateful Inspection Firewalls
Application Level Gateway
Circuit Level Gateway
Packet Filters
Packet Filters
Filtering based on
Source IP address
Destination IP address
Source and Destination transport-level address
IP protocol field
Interface (physical)
Rules!
Configuration files
Explicit allow / block
IP address spoofing
Source routing attacks
Tiny fragment attacks
Protocol, and
Connection State
SOCKS server
SOCKS
Bastion Host
Firewall Configurations
Screened-subnet Firewall
Access Control
can decompose by