Firewall Builder Articles and Papers

My presentation on DFN-CERT Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, February 2004

Here is the article published in 11th DFN-CERT Workshop materials. It can serve as a good technical summary or a white paper on the project.

Firewall Builder
Vadim Kurland, 11th DFN-CERT Workshop,
Hamburg, Germany, February 2004, ISBN 3-00-012959-6
                  

The presentation is available on DFN-CERT web site

My presentation on 10th Libre Software Meeting, Nantes, France, July 2009

Conference web site

Firewall Builder presentation on LSM, Nantes, France, 2009 from Vadim Kurland on Vimeo.

"Getting Started" Guides

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Debian Package of the Day: fwbuilder: Manage Firewalls Professionally Debian Administration: Getting Started with Firewall Builder HOWTO guides on www.howtoforge.com Getting Started With Firewall Builder Using Built-in Policy Installer in Firewall Builder Using Built-In Revision Control In Firewall Builder Book "Ubuntu Hacks" has very good chapter on Firewall Buidler. See Chapter 5: "Protect Your Network With a Firewall". DynamicFirewall - Detailed guide in the Ubuntu Community documentation. "The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook:: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments" by Craig S. Wright - Firewall Builder is recommended as firewall configuration and management tool in this book. Linux Journal has published an article “Paranoid Penguin: Using Firewall Builder” by Mick Bauer in their May and June volumes. You can find it online here: Part I  and   Part II. I highly recommend it as one of the best “getting started” guides for Firewall Builder. Firewall Builder: A firewall configuration GUI - article in Free Software Magazine (July 2007) Getting Started with Firewall Builder by Christian Barmala

Other outside links

• A talk "Network Firewalls including NAT, routing, arp, DMZs and a dash of layer 7" by Mike Rose, University of Cambridge. Interesting comparison of Firewall Builder + iptables firewall setup to Checkpoint Firewall-1.
• Firewall Builder is recommended as firewall configuration and management tool in the book "The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook:: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments" by Craig S. Wright
• Firewall Builder - The Easy Way Out of IPTables
• Building firewall rulesets with GUI (in German)
• Workshop: desktop firewall on Linux 2.4 (in German)
• Schneller mauern. Mit dem Firewall Builder schneller zu iptables-Regeln. (in German)
• Platform-Independed Firewall Policy Representation, by Vadim Zaliva
• Firewall Policy Modeling, Analysis and Simulation: a Survey, by Vadim Zaliva (pdf)
• HOWTO Managing traffic Shaping with fwbuilder by Michael Schwartzkopff