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A Distributed Firewall for Multimedia Applications

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Overview Firewalls are a widely used security mechanism to provide access control and auditing at the border between "Open" and private networks or administrative domains. As part of the network infrastructure they are strongly affected by the development and deployment of new communication paradigms and applications. Currently use of multimedia applications has rise. These differ in many aspects from "traditional applications", for example concerning bandwidth usage, dynamic protocol elements or multiple data flows for one application session. Corresponding firewall mechanisms and techniques did not change with the same dynamics though. This paper identifies typical characteristics of multimedia applications that cause problems using traditional firewalls.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Darmstadt University of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Management, Security Tools

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