Firewalls White Papers
Personal Firewalls - Testing Robustness
Overview Consumers require personal firewalls that are highly secure, easy to use, configurable and up-to-date with the latest signatures to detect malicious network activity. Robustness tests were performed on a selection of the ten most popular firewalls by market share. The test system used was a vanilla installation of Windows XP with SP2 and all the most recent updates and patches. Each firewall was installed with its default configuration following the didactic instructions given by the firewall. The investigation was carried out by performing an installation, penetration, performance and update test. A third party bitTorrent application was also installed mimicking a home installation of a download application.
| Publisher | Edith Cowan University | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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