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Formal security policy implementations in network firewalls.

Macfarlane, Richard; Buchanan, William J; Ekonomou, Elias; Uthmani, Omair; Fan, Lu; Lo, Owen

Authors

Elias Ekonomou

Omair Uthmani

Lu Fan



Abstract

Network security should be based around security policies. From high-level natural language, non-technical, policies created by management, down to device and vendor specific policies, or configurations, written by network system administrators. There exists a multitude of research into policy-based network systems which has been undertaken. This paper provides an overview of the different type of policies relating to security in networks, and a taxonomy of the research into systems which have been proposed to support the network administrators in difficult tasks of creating, managing and deploying these policies.

Citation

Macfarlane, R., Buchanan, W. J., Ekonomou, E., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., & Lo, O. (2012). Formal security policy implementations in network firewalls. Computers and Security, 31(2), 253-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2011.10.003

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 13, 2011
Online Publication Date Oct 29, 2011
Publication Date 2012-03
Deposit Date May 30, 2011
Publicly Available Date Oct 29, 2011
Journal Computers and Security
Print ISSN 0167-4048
Electronic ISSN 0167-4048
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 31
Issue 2
Pages 253-270
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2011.10.003
Keywords Security policy; Firewalls; Policy enforcement; Firewall policy management systems; Policy visualisation; Reverse engineering security policies
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4430
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2011.10.003

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