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Enhanced Internet firewall design using stateful filters final report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/554820· OSTI ID:554820
 [1];  [2]
  1. Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (United States). Infrastructure and Networking Research Dept.
  2. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Decision Support Systems Architectures

The current state-of-the-art in firewall design provides a lot of security for company networks, but normally at the expense of performance and/or functionality. Sandia researched a new approach to firewall design which incorporates a highly stateful approach, allowing much more flexibility for protocol checking and manipulation while retaining performance. A prototype system was built and multiple protocol policy modules implemented to test the concept. The resulting system, though implemented on a low-power workstation, performed almost at the same performance as Sandia`s current firewall.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
554820
Report Number(s):
SAND--97-8281; ON: DE97054404
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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