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Simulating Strategic Firewall Placement

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Overview A distributed denial of service attacks is one of the most difficult security threats to defend against. Typically, a network administrator cannot stop a denial of service attack without contacting the Internet service provider. If an overwhelming amount of traffic is coming into the ISP and being dropped, then only the ISP can effectively filter out the attack traffic. In order to give the network more control of filtering, the firewall can be connected directly to the ISP via an Ethernet connection. The ISP can then send all traffic straight to the firewall to filter based on the network administrator's rules. This paper describes a simulation of the proposed DDoS solution.

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Publisher	Auburn University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Tools

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