"Understanding Internet Protocols and Security,"
Donald Davis, SystemExperts Corporation, 1995, 6 pp.

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Abstract

This report summarizes and explains TCP/IP's many security related details, without assuming that the reader has a technical familiarity with network internals. We will not itemize the problems or their solutions in this document, beyond an example or two.

Most of TCP/IP's security details can be handled without sacrificing the communications connectivity that modern commerce demands in a network. In fact, the worst of TCP/IP's weaknesses are also present in every networking product, but other networks don't support the secure redress that TCP/IP does. The industry's most effective network security products were first built on TCP/IP networks. We emphasize that TCP/IP, when properly deployed and administered, offers the best balance of openness and security available today.

Table of Contents

• Internet Protocols and Security: Introduction
• Demystifying TCP/IP
• A Helpful Analogy
• Class Attack Approaches
• Solutions
• Conclusion
• Bibliography