Title :
Open source versus commercial firewalls: functional comparison
Author :
Patton, Samuel ; Doss, David ; Yurcik, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Comput. Sci., Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL, USA
Abstract :
This paper compares firewall alternatives with virtual private network support appropriate for corporate applications. Two specific firewall solutions are compared highlighting corresponding security risks: (1) a firewall constructed using only open source software available for the Linux operating system and (2) a commercial firewall solution from Cisco using the Cisco IOS firewall feature set
Keywords :
Internet; authorisation; business communication; network operating systems; open systems; telecommunication security; Cisco; IOS firewall feature set; Internet; Linux operating system; commercial firewalls; corporate applications; open source; open source software; security risks; virtual private network; Communication system traffic control; Filtering; Filters; Java; Linux; Open source software; Protection; Protocols; Software tools; Virtual private networks;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 2000. LCN 2000. Proceedings. 25th Annual IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0912-6
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2000.891032
