16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'00)
Using operating system wrappers to increase the resiliency of commercial firewalls
New Orleans, Louisiana
December 11-December 15
ISBN: 0-7695-0859-6
Operating system wrappers technology provides a means for providing fine grained controls on the operation of applications software. Application proxy firewalls can gain from this technology by wrapping the proxies, thus preventing bugs (or malicious software) in the proxy from subverting the intent of the firewall. We describe several experiments we performed with wrappers and firewalls, using several different firewalls and types of wrappers.
Index Terms:
network operating systems; computer networks; authorisation; telecommunication security; operating system wrappers; commercial firewalls; fine grained control; applications software; application proxy firewalls; malicious software; experiments
Citation:
J. Epstein, L. Thomas, E. Monteith, "Using operating system wrappers to increase the resiliency of commercial firewalls," acsac, pp.236, 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'00), 2000