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

"Getting Started" Guides

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Print-ready Firewall Builder Getting Started guide (pdf). Contributed by one of our users. Firewall Builder 3.0: Tutorial 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