This document discusses network security and provides details on common network security devices and protocols. It introduces network security as consisting of provisions and policies adopted by network administrators to prevent unauthorized access to computer networks and resources. It then describes common security devices like antivirus software, proxies, firewalls, and intrusion prevention systems. It also discusses the TCP/IP and UDP network protocols.

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-Jitin Kollamkudy

2. IntroductIon
• Consists of the provisions and policies adopted
by a network administrator to prevent and
monitor unauthorized access, misuse,
modification, or denial of a computer network
and network-accessible resources.
• Involves the authorization of access to data in a
network, which is controlled by the network
administrator.
• Involved in organizations, enterprises, and other
types of institutions.
• Secures the network, as well as protecting and
overseeing operations being done.

3. dEVIcES For nEtWorK
SEcurItY
1. Antivirus:
– Used to prevent, detect & remove malware
such as computer viruses, adware, backdoors,
malicious BHOs, dialers, fraudtools, hijackers,
keyloggers, malicious LSPs, rootkits, spyware,
trojan horses and worms
– Computer security, like protection
from social engineering techniques, is
commonly offered in products and services of
antivirus software companies.

4. • Methods to identify malware
– Signature-based detection
– Heuristics
– Rootkit detection
– Real-time protection

5. 2.PROXY
– Acts as an intermediary for requests
from clients seeking resources from other
servers
– The Process
– Most proxies are web proxies, facilitating
access to content on the World Wide Web.
•Types of Proxy
– Forward proxies
– Open proxies
– Reverse proxies
– Performance Enhancing Proxies

6. 3. FIREWALL
•A firewall is like a castle with a drawbridge
– Only one point of access into the network
– This can be good or bad
•Can be hardware or software
– Ex. Some routers come with firewall
functionality
– ipfw, ipchains, pf on Unix systems, Windows
XP and Mac OS X have built in firewalls

7. • To control the incoming and outgoing
network traffic by analyzing the data packets
and determining whether it should be allowed
through or not, based on a predetermined
rule set
• Builds a bridge between an internal network
and external (inter)network, such as the
Internet

8. Intranet
DMZInternet
Firewall
Firewall
Web server, email
server, web proxy, etc
Internet

9. 4. INTRUSION PREVENTION SYSTEM(IPS)
•Also known as intrusion detection and
prevention systems (IDPS)
•Network security appliances that monitor
network and/or system activities for malicious
activity.
•Main functions of intrusion prevention systems
are
– To identify malicious activity
– Log information about said activity
– Attempt to block/stop activity, and report
activity

10. Classifications
• Network-based intrusion prevention system
(NIPS)
• Wireless intrusion prevention systems
(WIPS)
• Network behavior analysis (NBA)
• Host-based intrusion prevention system
(HIPS)

11. TCP/IP
• Transmission Control Protocol / Internet
Protocol.
• It is a layered set of protocols that governs
the internet.
• It is a standard protocol that allows
computers from different manufactures to
talk together using a common means of
expression.

12. AdvAnTAges of TCP/IP
• TCP/IP can be used to establish connections
between different types of computers and
servers. Providing this type of interoperability is
one of the main advantages of TCP/IP.
• TCP/IP is an industry standard, open protocol.
This means that it is not controlled by one
institute.
• TCP/IP operates independently of the operating
system.
• TCP/IP includes support for a number of
routing protocols.
• Enables internetworking between organizations

13. DisaDvantages
• IPX is faster than TCP/IP.
• TCP/IP is intricate to set up and manage.
• The overhead of TCP/IP is higher than that
of IPX

14. UDP
• User Datagram Protocol
• The protocol was designed by David P. Reed
in 1980 and formally defined in RFC 768.
• The set of network protocols used for the
Internet.
• UDP uses a simple transmission model with a
minimum of protocol mechanism.

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