Traffic measurements provide critical input for a wide range of network management
applications, including traffic engineering, accounting, and security analysis. Existing …

Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing a first set of rules enforced by a firewall on
network traffic. Characteristics of the network traffic are examined and these characteristics …

A distributed firewall is a security application that monitors and controls traffic on an
organization's network. While centralized firewalls are used against attacks coming from …

Firewalls are among the most pervasive network security mechanisms, deployed extensively
from the borders of networks to end systems. The complexity of modern firewall policies has …

Blockchain is a developing technology which provides data storage, secure transactions
and establishing trust in an open environment. Blockchain is widely implemented in …

Firewall policy management is challenging and error-prone. While ample research has led
to tools for policy specification, correctness analysis, and optimization, few researchers have …

Designing and implementing efficient firewall strategies in the age of the internet of things is
far from trivial. This is because, as time proceeds, an increasing number of devices will be …

Firewalls are important network security devices that protect networks by blocking unwanted
traffic based on filtering policies. However, the structure of firewall policies has a major …

Network performance highly depends on efficiency of the firewall because for each network
packet which enters or leaves the network a decision has to be made whether to accept it or …

The overall performance of a firewall is crucial in enforcing and administrating security,
especially when the network is under attack. The continuous growth of the Internet, coupled …