Title :
Using operating system wrappers to increase the resiliency of commercial firewalls
Author :
Epstein, Jeremy ; Thomas, Linda ; Monteith, Eric
Abstract :
Operating system wrappers technology provides a means for providing fine grained controls on the operation of applications software. Application proxy firewalls can gain from this technology by wrapping the proxies, thus preventing bugs (or malicious software) in the proxy from subverting the intent of the firewall. We describe several experiments we performed with wrappers and firewalls, using several different firewalls and types of wrappers
Keywords :
authorisation; computer networks; network operating systems; telecommunication security; application proxy firewalls; applications software; commercial firewalls; experiments; fine grained control; malicious software; operating system wrappers; Access control; Application software; Computer bugs; Control systems; Information security; Intersymbol interference; Mediation; Operating systems; Sockets; Wrapping;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Security Applications, 2000. ACSAC '00. 16th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0859-6
DOI :
10.1109/ACSAC.2000.898878
