Firewall Survey

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Firewall Survey

• By Agnieszka Wosko
• and
• Jun Chen

CIS600 Internet Security Principles Spring
2001Interim Project Status Report
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Project Description
Survey the state of the art in firewall
protection. Firewalls are used at network
connection points to keep malicious people out of
your systems. What are good firewalls for
personal, business, e-commerce, Government, and
educational entities? What are their limitations
(in terms of attack coverage, event logging, data
recording, etc)? Do they have provisions for
dynamic code detection (virus which travels)? Is
there any attack detection?  
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Project Team Members and Their Roles

• Agnieszka Wosko awosko_at_ecs.syr.edu
• Spokeswoman, Researcher and Writer
• Jun Chen jchen12_at_syr.edu
• Researcher, Web Researcher and Design Consultant

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Focus Areas

• Firewall Application
• Its Objectives
• Authentication
• Access control
• Confidentiality
• Integrity in various environments

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Focus Areas (cont)

• Functional overview
• Overview of the performance and testing
• Overview of the products components (platforms,
  hardware and software)

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Current Literature Sources

• A. Silberschatz and P.B. Galvin. Operating System
  Concepts 5th ed. John Willey and Sons, Inc. 1999.
• J.F. DiMarzio. Network Architecture and Design.
  Chapter 11. Securing Your Network Sams
  Publishing. 2001.

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Current Literature Sources (cont)

• T. Ogletree. Practical Firewalls. Que. 2000
• B. Komar, J. Wettern, R. Beekelar. Firewalls for
  Dummies. Hungry Minds. 2001

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Current Internet Sources

• www.oulink.com Firewall Report
• www.greatcircle.com/gca/tutorial/main.html
  Firewall Tutorial by Great Circle Associates
  Internet Tutorials
• www.firewallguide.com Information and Current
  articles about security
• www.firewall.com

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Successful Progress So Far

• Literature research and overview of the relevant
  chapters to extract the needed information
• Researching the Internet resources for the most
  current firewall security surveys and news

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Main Bottlenecks

• Reading through the literature to find the
  relevant sources to the assigned topic
• Searching the internet sites trying to eliminate
  the irrelevant information as well as outdated
  sources
• Trying to put all of the information into one
  coherent idea and present it in an articulate
  format

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Proposed Outline

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Abstract
• Terminology
• Objective of the survey
• Scope of the project
• Background and central points
• Researched literature and collected resources

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Proposed Outline (cont)

• Conclusion
• the results of the survey
• Recommendations
• directions to pursue further information
• References
• web sites, journal articles, literature

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Proposed Outline (cont)

• Appendix
• quick overview of the survey and our own
  afterthoughts about what we have accomplished

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Our Progress So Far...

• We have made a fairly successful progress with
  our research on various topics concerning the
  firewall security
• We are confident that our project is going in the
  right direction and that our paper will be a
  success