Next Gen Firewalls: An Investigation into the Impact of User Activity Context on Firewall Administration
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open in viewerThis pilot study was performed to examine the effects of presenting user activity-based data alongside standard network traffic data on network administrators' firewall configuration behavior, specifically that provided by the PEACE firewall system. Utilizing a web application to simulate interaction with a firewall, behavior was compared between traffic flows containing PEACE or only non-PEACE data. Our results were suggestive of a correlation between PEACE data and increased confidence in decision making, as well as a trend towards marking previously difficult to categorize flows as legitimate and nonmalicious. Further studies with larger sample sizes are necessary to adequately establish causation.
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- E-project-032219-145645
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- 2019
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- 2019-03-22
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