In Pursuit of the User Friendly, Impenetrable, Tamperproof, Impregnable Firewall

Table of Contents -- Index

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]

A

About Our Organization .. A Snapshot View of Our Company Strengths

Address Resolution Protocol .. How the Two Physical Mediums Communicate

API Shims .. Their Development and Usage

Application Binary Interface .. defines the library calls and program hooks

Application Layer Attacks .. How They Can Lead to Security Breaches

Application Level Firewalls .. the Proxy Technique

Application Programming Interface Shims .. Explanation of This Process

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C

Circuit Level Filters .. Inspecting the Network Packet Header Information

D

Denial of Service Attacks .. A Method for Crashing Firewalls

Dual DNS System .. How the Firewall Easily Handles This Scenario

Dual Operating Systems .. On the Same Computer Motherboard or Router

E

Expanded IPX Frames .. a New Method for the Firewall Packet Transfers Which Offer a Full Security System for Virtual Private Network Connections

Expanded IPX or GONet .. Exploding the IEEE Datagram Frames and utilization of the EIPF Frame for a Fully Secure Virtual Private Network

F

Firewall Description .. Description of the Firewall Concepts

Frequently Asked Questions .. A Sampling of Email Questions on the Firewall

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H

Hook and Chain .. How it Works with Windows Sockets

I

ICMP .. Disabling it Prevents IP Spoofing

Illustrations .. Drawings of Our Various Firewall Configurations; Standard Dual DNS Configuration; Multi Port Switching Router Configuration, Triple DNS Configuration and Quad DNS Configuration

Informational Appliances .. Firewall Applicability to These Devices of the Future

Interception of Winsock API Calls .. Made by Application Programs

Intelligent Input/Output Devices .. Dual Input/Output processing

IPSEC Security .. How the Firewall Accomplishes This Need

IP Security Protocol .. How the Firewall Uses This IETF Feature

IP Spoofing .. Major Mechanism to Breach a Firewall

IP Tunneling .. and Its Relationship to Virtual Private Networks

IPX-IP Gateways .. One Solution But NOT Perfect

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L

M

Man in the Middle Attacks .. How They Can Breach a Firewall

Methods Used by Crackers to Breach Your System .. A Synopsis of Methods to Crack Into a Firewall

Multiple HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS Daemons on the Same Firewall .. One of the Unusual Benefits of designing a Firewall Using Our Firewall Technologies

N

Network Address Translation .. a Description of Its Use

Network Packet Sniffers .. When Can They Be Effective

Non-IP Protocol .. What it Truly is and Can Be

O

Our Specialized Worldwide Cooperative of Technology Sales Brokers

Microsoft Consumer Electronic (CE) Operating System .. and its relationship to the Firewall

P

Packet Drivers .. The Unique Solution of the Past

Packet Filtering .. One of the Many Mechanisms Used by Firewall Manufacturers

Password Attacks .. The Most Common Method Used by Crackers to Enter Your System

PC-TV .. How the Firewall Operates with "set-top" boxes and home appliances

Q

Quality of Service .. QoS Function Support

R

Routers .. Addresses the Firewall as a "Switching" Router

S

Our Specialized Worldwide Cooperative of Technology Sales Brokers

SAP Protocol .. As It Applies to IPX

Security Breaches Suffered by Firewalls .. a Synopsis

Set-Top Boxes .. Use of Firewall for Set - Top Boxes

SOCKS .. the Circuit Level Proxy

Spanning-Tree Algorithms .. For Multiport Switches

SPX .. Less Overhead But Not as Fast as IPX

Stateful Inspection .. the Hybrid System

Switch Trunking .. For Multiport Switching Routers

T

The "Well Known Ports" .. as Controller by the Redirector/Gateways

Transport Driver Interface .. TDI in Windows

U

Umbrella Management .. How It Works In the Creation of Device Drivers and Application Communications Programs

V

Virtual Private Networks .. VPN and How It is Used by the Firewall

Virtual Private Network .. How Adapter Cards Can Assist This Need

VxD (Virtual Device Drivers) .. How They Stack Up Against DLL's

W

Winsocks .. and Their Relationship to API Shims

Winsock Redirector Gateways .. the Plug and Play Architecture

Winsock Version 2 .. the Design Goals and Features of the New Version

Wire Speed .. How a Switching Router Firewall Gives Us Fantastic Speed in Packet Movement.

Wireless LAN's / WAN's .. The success of the Firewall in the Wireless Environment.

WSOCK32.DLL and WS2-32.DLL .. Support for Hook and Chaining

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Y

Z

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