CarolinaCon Online 3

Deconstructing Firewalls
2023-04-22 , Talks

This talk is about my research related to software defined networking and dynamic network management. This talk will cover an overview of this research field and the current project I am working that allows for dynamically packet filtering on network switches. This solution provides a low cost distributed firewall solution that is able to scale with growing network demands.


Our research focuses on automating local and global rules in a distributed firewall network while leveraging the benefits of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and SMT solvers. This allows use to integrate our system into IDS systems like snort and filter alerts without degrading the network state and introducing network loops. The end results of this research will be an open source way to develop and deploy the next generation of security appliances.