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Firewall Policy Reconstruction by Active Probing: An Attacker's View
Overview Having a firewall policy that is correct and complete is crucial to the safety of the computer network. An adversary will benefit a lot from knowing the policy or its semantics. This paper shows how an attacker can reconstruct a firewall's policy by probing the firewall by sending tailored packets into a network and forming an idea of what the policy looks like. It presents two approaches of compiling this information into a policy that can be arbitrary close to the original one used in the deployed firewall. The first approach is based on region growing from single firewall response to sample packets. The other approach uses split-and-merge in order to divide the space of the firewall's rules and analyzes each independently.
| Publisher | DePaul University | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | August 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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