Title
Verification of firewall reconfiguration for virtual machines migrations in the cloud
Abstract
While elasticity is valuable to the cloud, it may introduce security flaws due to misconfiguration after virtual machines migration. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to verify distributed firewalls reconfiguration after migration. To this end, we elaborate a language that captures distributed stateless and stateful firewalls with their underlying semantics. Integrated to Cloud Calculus, it allows specifying distributed firewalls topology. We also define semantic equivalence over stateful firewalls that forms the base for our verification approach. Furthermore, we define the property of network access control and state preservation using the concepts of soundness and completeness of firewall configurations. Additionally, we use constraint satisfaction problems to reason about our defined preservation property. Finally, we investigate the correctness and scalability of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.comnet.2015.10.008
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Security,Verification,Stateful firewalls,Distributed firewalls,Cloud computing,Constraint satisfaction problem
Virtual machine,Firewall (construction),Computer science,Correctness,Computer network,Application firewall,Stateful firewall,Network Access Control,Control reconfiguration,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
93
P3
1389-1286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
16
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yosr Jarraya117314.52
Arash Eghtesadi2171.44
Sahba Sadri330.72
Mourad Debbabi41467144.47
Makan Pourzandi521628.31