A formal basis for the design and analysis of firewall security policies

A firewall is the core of a well defined network security policy. This paper presents an automata-based method to study firewall security policies. We first propose a procedure that synthesizes an automaton that describes a security policy given as a table of rules. The synthesis procedure is then u...

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Main Authors: Ahmed Khoumsi, Mohammed Erradi, Wadie Krombi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319157816301185