Systematic review of automatic translation of high-level security policy into firewall rules. (arXiv:2212.03645v1 [cs.CR])

Firewalls are security devices that perform network traffic filtering. They
are ubiquitous in the industry and are a common method used to enforce
organizational security policy. Security policy is specified on a high level of
abstraction, with statements such as "web browsing is allowed only on
workstations inside the office network", and needs to be translated into
low-level firewall rules to be enforceable. There has been a lot of work
regarding optimization, analysis and platform independence of firewall rules,
but …

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