Firewall Testing

Links
http://www.securityskeptic.com/firewalls.htm

The following article is excerpted from the Computer Security Journal, Vol. XII, No. 1, Spring 1996. All rights reserved.
How to Perform Effective Firewall Testing
By E. Eugene Schultz, Ph.D.
http://www.spirit.com/CSI/Papers/how2test.htm

Firewall Conformance Testing
http://www.infsec.ethz.ch/people/dsenn/TestCom_20050601.pdf

Blowtorch: a framework for firewall test automation
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1101925
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/seminars/2006/24mar06.html
http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/recvat/index.html
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=1344718

Firewall Security: Policies, Testing and Performance Evaluation
Michael R. Lyu and Lorrien K. Y. Lau
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Elyu/paper_pdf/kylau.pdf

Firewall Testing
Cameron Kerr
http://www.telecom.otago.ac.nz/tele301/assignments/fwalltest.pdf

Firewalls and Firewall Testing Techniques
Sonia Fahmy
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/talks/firewall.pdf

  • Tools

Links
http://www.penetrationtests.com/index.php?search=Firewall&search-btn.x=19&search-btn.y=11
http://www.l0t3k.org/security/tools/firewall/


FTester
http://dev.inversepath.com/trac/ftester
http://www.tisc-insight.com/newsletters/56.html

HOL-TestGen
http://www.brucker.ch/projects/hol-testgen/

Firewall Policy Advisor Project Homepage:
http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/projects/FPA/