Proactive Security Mechanism and Design for Firewall

Saleem-Ullah Lar, Xiaofeng Liao, Aqeel ur Rehman, MA Qinglu

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DOI: 10.4236/jis.2011.23012                

Abstract

In this paper we have present the architecture and module for internet firewall. The central component is fuzzy controller while properties of packets are fuzzified as inputs. On the basis of proposed fuzzy security algorithm, we have figured out security level of each packet and adjust according to packets dynamic states. Internet firewall can respond to these dynamics and take respective actions accordingly. Therefore, proactive firewall solves the conflict between speed and security by providing high performance and high security. Simulation shows that if the response value is in between 0.7 and 1 it belongs to high security.

Keywords

Firewall Security, Security Evaluation, Network Security

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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