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Network Security
Reasons to attack
• Steal information
• Modify information
• Deny service (DoS)
Targets
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DB
Servers
Traffic
Workstations
Bandwidth
Types of attack
• Snooping: listening to data
• Corrupting: modifying data
• Spoofing: generate traffic that will be
perceived as legitimate traffic
• Denial of service
DoS methods
• Ping of death: offset in packet causes buffer
overflow => memory corruption
• Tear drop: misfragmented packet => OS
crashes trying to reconstruct
• Land: SYN w/ identical src and dest =>
loop
• SYN attack/flood: massive number of SYNs
IP Sec
• Encryption + authentication
• Authentication header (AH): authenticates
non-variable part of frame (MD5 hash)
• Encapsulation Security Payload (ESP):
Encrypts payload (DES)
Modes of operation: Tunnel
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GW to GW
GWs need to be IPSEC enabled
ESP encrypts initial frame
AH authenticates non variable parts
Modes of operation: Transport
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Host to host
Hosts need to IPSEC enabled
ESP encrypts payload
AH authenticates non-variable part
Encapsulation
Security Associations
• One-way connections => a communications
requires 2 SA
• Negotiation managed by IKE (Internet Key
Exchange) => Dynamic and secure
establishment of SA
• IKE authenticates each peer in an IPSec
transaction, negotiates security policy, and
handles the exchange of session keys.
Firewalls
• Inside devices are not directly accessible
from the outside
• Filters traffic based on defined RULES
(rules can apply to addresses, ports,
protocols, etc… )
• Can be either software or hardware
• Can not protect from everything
DMZ
• DeMilitarized zone
• Private area that can be accessed from the
outside (FTP or Web servers for example)
• Different or no rules
Firewall with DMZ
+ NAT