An inference system for detecting firewall filtering rules anomalies
Tarek Abbes, Adel Bouhoula, Michaël Rusinowitch · 2008
Firewalls are crucial equipments for protecting private networks. However by only deploying firewalls, administrators are far from securing their enterprises networks. Bad configurations may cause serious security breaches and network vulnerabilities. In particular, conflicting filtering rules lead to block legitimate traffic or to accept unwanted packets.