Abstract:
Firewalls as an approved and highly deployed security mechanism have an important role in setting up reliable security policies to ensure the protection of private and cr...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Firewalls as an approved and highly deployed security mechanism have an important role in setting up reliable security policies to ensure the protection of private and critical systems and infrastructures. While a firewall is considered as an essential node in Information Systems (IS) security and represents the backbone of security solutions, its effectiveness is highly dependent on the efficiency of its configuration and the reliability and coherence of its filtering policy. Enhancing the efficiency of access control solutions via improving the quality and the capacity of firewalls attracted several researchers which led to several generations of firewall technologies. In this context, we introduce the novel concept of FW-TR firewall that integrates a trust-risk assessment approach in firewall solutions. Evaluating and involving the trust-risk associated to the filtering rules and policy in a firewall solution helps primary in: (i) strengthening the quality of the firewall filtering service; (ii) discovering firewall misconfigurations; (iii) analyzing firewall rules for anomalies detection; and (iv) changing the firewall behavior facing critical and malicious scenarios. The current paper defines a framework for organizing thinking about incorporating policies and rules trust-risk values in firewall filtering solutions that constitute what we called FW-TR: the new generation of firewalls.
Date of Conference: 24-28 June 2019
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 22 July 2019
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