DocumentCode
2721112
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
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
223
Lastpage
224
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Local Computer Networks, 2000. LCN 2000. Proceedings. 25th Annual IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Tampa, FL
ISSN
0742-1303
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0912-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LCN.2000.891032
Filename
891032
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