Quantifying the Security Effectiveness of Firewalls and DMZs
| Title | Quantifying the Security Effectiveness of Firewalls and DMZs |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Chen, Huashan, Cho, Jin-Hee, Xu, Shouhuai |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium and Bootcamp on Hot Topics in the Science of Security |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-6455-3 |
| Keywords | Collaboration, comparability, composability, cybersecurity dynamics, demilitarized zones, Dynamical Systems, firewalls, Human Behavior, Metrics, preventive dynamics, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, science of security, security metrics, security quantification |
| Abstract | Firewalls and Demilitarized Zones (DMZs) are two mechanisms that have been widely employed to secure enterprise networks. Despite this, their security effectiveness has not been systematically quantified. In this paper, we make a first step towards filling this void by presenting a representational framework for investigating their security effectiveness in protecting enterprise networks. Through simulation experiments, we draw useful insights into the security effectiveness of firewalls and DMZs. To the best of our knowledge, these insights were not reported in the literature until now. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3190619.3190639 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3190619.3190639 |
| Citation Key | chen_quantifying_2018 |