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Re: [fw-wiz] Security policy language

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Security policy language
From: Steffen Kluge <kluge@fujitsu.com.au>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:23:21 +1100
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I suspect part of the problems is the confusion of terms that firewall
vendors brought about by starting to call their firewall rule sets
"policies" all those years ago.

If you are looking for an implementation-neutral representation of
firewall rule sets, then I guess quite some work has already been done
in that field. One example that comes to mind is the fwbuilder project
that manages rule sets for various different firewalls (iptables, PIX,
Check Point IIRC) under a single GUI and back-end store.

If I misunderstood what you're after just ignore me.

Cheers
Steffen.

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