Title
Edu-firewall device: An advanced firewall hardware device for information security education
Abstract
Firewalls are security devices used to apply an organization's security policy. However, commercial firewalls, such as Juniper Networks and Cisco ASA firewall devices, are mainly designed to be used by networking and security professionals, are not very appropriate for the academia environment, and lack simplicity. In addition, commercial firewalls are usually considered high-cost hardware devices. However, academic institutions usually have tight budget and few financial resources for purchasing networking and security devices for their laboratories. To overcome the aforementioned limitation of commercial firewalls, an educational firewall hardware device, called Edu-Firewall, is discussed and demonstrated. Edu-Firewall main objectives are to offer advanced educational security functions that are not commonly available in current commercial firewalls, and an easy-to-use friendly graphical interface to configure the firewall and manipulate the filtering rules. In addition, Edu-Firewall's objective is to offer an affordable educational device, compared to the available commercial firewall devices. Edu-Firewall allows students to implement hands-on lab exercises on firewalls and better anatomize network traffic filtering concepts and firewall configuration, and contributes to enhance students' hands-on security skills.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CCNC.2016.7444779
2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Information security education,Firewall,Network packet filtering
Internet security,Firewall (construction),Computer science,Computer security,Asset (computer security),Computer network,Information security,Context-based access control,Application firewall,Cloud computing security,Security information and event management,Computer hardware
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zouheir Trabelsi113627.78
Vasiqullah Molvizadah200.34