Network Security: Formal and Optimized Configuration

  • Authors:
  • Marfall N. Fall;Mohamed Mejri

  • Affiliations:
  • Département d'informatique et de génie logiciel, Université Laval, Québec (QC) Canada. marfall-ndiaga.fall.1@ulaval.ca;Département d'informatique et de génie logiciel, Université Laval, Québec (QC) Canada. mohamed.mejri@ift.ulaval.ca

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the 9th SoMeT_10
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Firewalls are crucial elements in enforcing network security policies. They have been widely deployed for securing private networks but, their configuration remains complex and error prone. During the last years, many techniques and tools have been proposed to correctly configure firewalls. However, most of existing works are informal and do not take into account the global performance of the network or other qualities of its services (QoS). In this paper we introduce a formal approach allowing to formally and optimally configure a network so that a given security policy is respected and by taking into account the QoS.