Title
Improving the configuration management of large network security systems
Abstract
The security mechanisms employed in today's networked environments are increasingly complex and their configuration management has an important role for the protection of these environments. Especially in large scale networks, security administrators are faced with the challenge of designing, deploying, maintaining, and monitoring a huge number of mechanisms, most of which have complicated and heterogeneous configuration syntaxes. This work offers an approach for improving the configuration management of network security systems in large-scale environments. We present a configuration process supported by a modelling technique that uniformly handles different mechanisms and by a graphical editor for the system design. The editor incorporates focus and context concepts for improving model visualisation and navigation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11568285_4
DSOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
configuration process,context concept,huge number,security mechanism,large network security system,heterogeneous configuration syntax,different mechanism,graphical editor,network security system,security administrator,configuration management,system design,network security
Telecommunications network,Visualization,Computer science,Network security,Systems design,Security policy,Configuration management,Network management,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3775
0302-9743
3-540-29388-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.65
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Porto de Albuquerque113725.10
Holger Isenberg260.65
Heiko Krumm324132.76
Paulo Lício de Geus48313.37