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Study on the mechanism for the dynamic traversing of multiple firewalls using the concept of one-time master key (일회용 마스터 키 개념을 이용한 다중 방화벽 동적 통과 메커니즘 연구)

  • Park, Hyoung-Woo;Kim, Sang-Wan;Kim, Jong-Suk Ruth.;Jang, Haeng-Jin
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2010
  • If an exterior computer wants to join the Grid/cloud computing platform for a while, all of the related firewalls' filtering rule should be immediately updated. As the platform of Internet application is gradually evolving into the Grid/Cloud environment, the R&D requirement for the dynamic traversing of the multiple firewalls by a single try is also increasing. In this paper, we introduce the new mechanism for the dynamic traversing of the multiple firewalls using the concept of the one-time master key that can dynamically unlock the tiers of firewalls simultaneously instead of the existed filtering rule based method like a lock management at each firewall. The proposed master keys are like one-time password, consisted of IP addresses, port numbers, and TCP's initial sequence numbers, and generated by end users not administrators. They're exchanged mutually in advance and used to make a hole at local-side firewalls for the other's packet incoming. Therefore, the proposed mechanism can function regardless of the number or type of firewalls.

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Fire Resistance Characteristics of Firewall Structure Associated with Impact Damage Induced by Explosion

  • Hye Rim Cho;Jeong Hwa Yoo;Jung Kwan Seo
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.99-110
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    • 2023
  • When a fire accident accompanied by an explosion occurs, the surrounding firewalls are affected by impact and thermal loads. Damaged firewalls due to accidental loads may not fully perform their essential function. Therefore, this paper proposes an advanced methodology for evaluating the fire resistance performance of firewalls damaged by explosions. The fragments were assumed to be scattered, and fire occurred as a vehicle exploded in a large compartment of a roll-on/roll-off (RO-RO) vessel. The impact velocity of the fragments was calculated based on the TNT equivalent mass corresponding to the explosion pressure. Damage and thermal-structural response analyses of the firewall were performed using Ansys LS-DYNA code. The fire resistance reduction was analyzed in terms of the temperature difference between fire-exposed and unexposed surfaces, temperature increase rate, and reference temperature arrival time. The degree of damage and the fire resistance performance of the firewalls varied significantly depending on impact loads. When naval ships and RO-RO vessels that carry various explosive substances are designed, it is reasonable to predict that the fire resistance performance will be degraded according to the explosion characteristics of the cargo.

A Connection Management Protocol for Stateful Inspection Firewalls in Multi-Homed Networks

  • Kim, Jin-Ho;Lee, Hee-Jo;Bahk, Sae-Woong
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.455-464
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    • 2008
  • To provide network services consistently under various network failures, enterprise networks increasingly utilize path diversity through multi-homing. As a result, multi-homed non-transit autonomous systems become to surpass single-homed networks in number. In this paper, we address an inevitable problem that occurs when networks with multiple entry points deploy firewalls in their borders. The majority of today's firewalls use stateful inspection that exploits connection state for fine-grained control. However, stateful inspection has a topological restriction such that outgoing and incoming traffic of a connection should pass through a single firewall to execute desired packet filtering operation. Multi-homed networking environments suffer from this restriction and BGP policies provide only coarse control over communication paths. Due to these features and the characteristics of datagram routing, there exists a real possibility of asymmetric routing. This mismatch between the exit and entry firewalls for a connection causes connection establishment failures. In this paper, we formulate this phenomenon into a state-sharing problem among multiple fire walls under asymmetric routing condition. To solve this problem, we propose a stateful inspection protocol that requires very low processing and messaging overhead. Our protocol consists of the following two phases: 1) Generation of a TCP SYN cookie marked with the firewall identification number upon a SYN packet arrival, and 2) state sharing triggered by a SYN/ACK packet arrival in the absence of the trail of its initial SYN packet. We demonstrate that our protocol is scalable, robust, and simple enough to be deployed for high speed networks. It also transparently works under any client-server configurations. Last but not least, we present experimental results through a prototype implementation.

Design of Application Proxy Server for H.323 Protocol (H.323을 지원하는 Application Proxy Server의 설계)

  • 오영선;이현태
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.296-301
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    • 2000
  • This paper provides the solution for supporting H.323 services through firewalls with proxy server. The paper Provides a survey of H.323 Protocol, and framework for firewalls. The Paper also discusses the issues of H.323 and proxy server - why H.323 is hard for firewalls, and service scenarios with H.323 terminals and proxy server. Finally, the paper propose an application proxy service architecture for supporting H.323 protocol.

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Development of the SysLog-based Integrated Log Management system for Firewalls in Distributed Network Environments (분산 환경에서 SysLog기반의 방화벽 통합로그관리시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Dong Young;Seo, Hee Suk;Lee, Eul Suk
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2011
  • Application log files contain error messages; operational data and usage information that can help manage applications and servers. Log analysis system is software that read and parse log files, extract and aggregate information in order to generate reports on the application. In currently, the importance of log files of firewalls is growing bigger and bigger for the forensics of cyber crimes and the establishment of security policy. In this paper, we designed and implemented the SILAS(SysLog-based Integrated Log mAanagement System) in distribute network environments. It help to generate reports on the the log fires of firewalls - IP and users, and statistics of application usage.

Security Evaluation Criteria for Firewalls in Kirea

  • Lee, Cheol-Won;Hong, Ki-Yoong;Kim, Hak-Beom;Oh, Kyeong-Hee;Kwon, Hyun-Jo;Sim, Joo-Geol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.63-78
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    • 1998
  • Recently, to use the evaluated firewall is recognized as a solution to achieve the security and reliability for government and organizarions in Korea. Results of firewall evaluation using ITSEC(Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria) and CCPP(Common Criteria Protection Peofile)have been announced. Because there are problems to apply ITSECor CCPP for the firewall evaluation in korea environment, korea government and korea Information security Agency (KISA) decided to develop our own security dvaluation critrtia fir firewalls.As a result of the efforts, Korea firewall security evaluation criteria has been published on Feb. 1998. In this paper, we introduce Korea security evaluation criteria for firewalls. The ceiteria consists of functional and assurance requirements that are compatible with CC Evaluation Assurance Levels(EALs)

A Systematic Study of Network Firewall and Its Implementation

  • Alsaqour, Raed;Motmi, Ahmed;Abdelhaq, Maha
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 2021
  • This is an era of technology and with the rapid growth of the Internet, networks are continuously growing. Companies are shifting from simple to more complex networks. Since networks are responsible to transmit huge data which is often sensitive and a point of concern for hackers. Despite the sizes of the networks, all networks are subject to several threats. Companies deploy several security measures to protect their networks from unauthorized access. These security measures are implemented from the device level to the network level. Every security layer adds more to the security of the company's network. Firewalls are the piece of software that provides internal and external security of the network. Firewalls aim to enhance the device level as well as network-level security. This paper aims to investigate the different types of firewalls, their architecture, and vulnerabilities of the firewall. This paper improves the understanding of firewall and its various types of architecture.

Security Risks Evaluation based on IPv6 Firewall Rules (IPv6의 방화벽 규칙을 기반으로한 보안위험 평가)

  • Phang, Seong-Yee;Lee, Hoon-Jae;Lim, Hyo-Taek
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.261-264
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    • 2008
  • IPv6 has been proposed and deployed to cater the shortage of IPv4 addresses. It is expected to foresee mobile phones, pocket PCs, home devices and any other kind of network capable devices to be connected to the Internet with the introduction and deployment of IPv6. This scenario will bring in more challenges to the existing network infrastructure especially in the network security area. Firewalls are the simplest and the most basic form of protection to ensure network security. Nowadays, firewalls' usage has been extended from not only to protect the whole network but also appear as software firewalls to protect each network devices. IPv6 and IPv4 are not interoperable as there are separate networking stacks for each protocol. Therefore, the existing states of the art in firewalling need to be reengineered. In our context here, we pay attention only to the IPv6 firewalls configuration anomalies without considering other factors. Pre-evaluation of security risk is important in any organization especially a large scale network deployment where an add on rules to the firewall may affect the up and running network. We proposed a new probabilistic based model to evaluate the security risks based on examining the existing firewall rules. Hence, the network administrators can pre-evaluate the possible risk incurred in their current network security implementation in the IPv6 network. The outcome from our proposed pre-evaluation model will be the possibilities in percentage that the IPv6 firewall is configured wrongly or insecurely where known attacks such as DoS attack, Probation attack, Renumbering attack and etc can be launched easily. Besides that, we suggest and recommend few important rules set that should be included in configuring IPv6 firewall rules.

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The Policy Distribution Algorithm of Firewall in Integrated Security Management (통합보안관리시스템의 방화벽정책 분배를 위한 알고리즘 : FALCON)

  • Kim, Gwang-Hyeok;Gwon, Yun-Ju;Kim, Dong-Su;Jeong, Tae-Myeong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.9C no.4
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    • pp.467-472
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    • 2002
  • Recently, Networks are required to adopt the security system and security consulting because of security threats and vulnerabilities of systems. Enterprise Security Management (ESM) is a system which establishes the security zone composed of security systems and Firewalls and applies the security policy to each security system. A relevant ESM is based on the effective policy and the proper security system. Particularly, multiple firewalls in ESM are concerned with the security policy about each traffic. In this paper, we describe the problems that can be occurred when we select the firewalls to apply security policy of access control in ESM composed of multiple firewalls and propose the FALCON algorithm, which is able to select the firewalis to apply the policy. We expect that FALCON algorithm offers stability, scalability and compactness for selecting firewall set.

System Insecurity - Firewalls

  • Ryu, Youngtae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Information Systems Conference
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.171-175
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    • 2000
  • The firewall is normally an intermediate system between the secure internal networks and the less secure external networks. It is intended to keep corporate systems safe from intruders, hackers, and accidental entry into the corporate system. The primary types of firewalls are screening routers, proxy servers, and stateful inspectors. Encryption is another form of firewall protection which is being incorporated along with other firewall methods. Before choosing a firewall architecture, a company must have the right mind set about the threat. The future will see more integration of firewall technologies and the increased use of standards in the industry. It must also determine what are the possible consequences of a breach in security and then develop a system to counter the threat. Additionally, new firewall technologies will address the potential dangers associated with the use of Java applets and Active X-controls on the Internet.

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