The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

TCP Wrapper - Network monitoring, access control, and booby traps.

Author

Wietse Venema

Entry type

techreport

Abstract

This paper presents a simple tool to monitor and control incoming network traffic. The tool has been successfully used for shielding off systems and for detection of cracker activity. It has no impact on legal computer users, and does not require any change to exsisting system software or configuration files. The tool has been installed world-wide on numerous UNIX systems without any source code change.

Address

The Netherlands

Institution

Mathematics and Computing Science Eindhoven University of Technology

Key alpha

Venema

Publication Date

0000-00-00

Location

A hard-copy of this is in the Papers Cabinet

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