Secure and flexible model for firewall policy management

In the latest years firewalls have seen some impressive technological advances (e.g. statefull inspection, transparency, performance, etc.) and wide-spread deployment. In contrast, firewall and security management technology is lacking. The paper proposes a secure model for firewall policy management. Our secure MVC model can be used as a framework for managing the firewall policy. We believe that our approach is an important step towards streamlining the process of configuring and managing firewalls, especially in complex, multi-firewall installations.