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Firewalls protect hosts in a corporate network from attacks. Together with the surrounding network infrastructure, they form a complex system, the security of which relies crucially on the correctness of the firewalls. We propose a method for specification-based testing of firewalls. It enables to formally model the firewalls and the surrounding network and to mechanically derive test-cases checking the firewalls for vulnerabilities. We use a general CASE-tool which makes our method fiexible and easy to use.
This work was partially supported by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and by the German Ministry of Economics within the FairPay project.
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Jürjens, J., Wimmel, G. (2001). Specification-Based Testing of Firewalls. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45575-2_31
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