Firewalls: Trends and Problems
Steven Alexander- Firewalls: Trends and Problems.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Steven Alexander- Firewalls: Trends and Problems.
Vulnerability Analysis
This talk will cover some of the new firewalling trends and how many of them are detrimental to security.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
The focus of this talk will be on how the discussed trends work and how they can be used by an attacker to defeat security, and how security problems can be avoided.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
The discussion will not cover specific products in order to allow anyone to apply the subject matter to their current configuration. Steven works for a small ISP, attends his local college as a math major and spends his free time studying cryptography. DEF CON 7.0 was held July 9-11th, 1999, in Las Vegas Nevada USA
Related talks
Main Stage·4 min
Thomas J. Munn
Thomas J. Munn examines thomas Munn - Need for home-based firewalls.
Main Stage·49 min
Robert Graham
Robert Graham explores evading network-based intrusion detection systems at DEF CON 8, examining firewalls and practical defenses.
Main Stage·16 min
Jeru
Jeru explores advanced evasion of ids buffer overflow detection at DEF CON 8, examining firewalls and practical defenses.