期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science Issues
印刷版ISSN：1694-0784
电子版ISSN：1694-0814
出版年度：2012
卷号：9
期号：3
出版社：IJCSI Press
摘要：When enterprises deploy multiple firewalls, a packet may be examined by different sets of firewalls. It has been observed that the resulting complex firewall network is highly error prone and causes serious security holes. Hence, automated solutions are needed in order to check its correctness. In this paper, we propose a formal and automatic method for checking whether multiple firewalls react correctly with respect to a security policy given in a high level declarative language. When errors are detected, some useful feedback is returned in order to correct the firewall configurations. Furthermore, we propose a priority-based approach to ensure that no incoherencies exist within the security policy. We show that our method is both correct and complete. Finally, it has been implemented in a prototype of verifier based on a satisfiability solver modulo theories. Experiment conducted on relevant case studies demonstrates the efficiency of our approach.
