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BlockFW - Towards Blockchain-based Rule-Sharing Firewall

Authors:
Wei-Yang Chiu
Weizhi Meng

Keywords: Network security, Firewall, Blockchain technology, Intrusion detection, Consensus algorithm

Abstract:
Central-managed security mechanisms are often utilized in many organizations, but such server is also a security breaking point. This is because the server has the authority for all nodes that share the security protection. Hence if the attackers successfully tamper the server, the organization will be in trouble. Also, the settings and policies saved on the server are usually not cryptographically secured and ensured with hash. Thus, changing the settings from alternative way is feasible, without causing the security solution to raise any alarms. To mitigate these issues, in this work, we develop BlockFW - a blockchain-based rule sharing firewall to create a managed security mechanism, which provides validation and monitoring from multiple nodes. For BlockFW, all occurred transactions are cryptographically protected to ensure its integrity, making tampering attempts in utmost challenging for attackers. In the evaluation, we explore the performance of BlockFW under several adversarial conditions and demonstrate its effectiveness.

Pages: 70 to 75

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: October 16, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-68558-007-0

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from October 16, 2022 to October 20, 2022