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Usability and Security of Personal Firewalls
Overview Effective security of a personal firewall depends on the rule granularity and the implementation of the rule enforcement and the correctness and granularity of user decisions at the time of an alert. A misconfigured or loosely configured firewall may be more dangerous than no firewall at all because of the user's false sense of security. This paper assesses effective security of 13 personal firewalls by comparing possible granularity of rules as well as the usability of rule set-up and its influence on security. In order to evaluate usability, it has submitted each firewall to use cases that require user decisions and cause rule creation. In order to evaluate the firewalls' security, the created rules are analyzed.
| Publisher | Linkopings Universitet | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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