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I recently completed a BSc Honours in Computer Science Degree at University :-)  So I thought I'd be nice and allow you to view some of my work in case it proves useful/informative to you.  BTW I got a 2:1 so it can't be that bad!

Warning: Plagiarism is taken very seriously by academic institutions so make sure if you use any of my work that you give the necessary credit to me.  I accept beer, money and gifts! ;-)

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Dissertation:     Firewalls - Do They Work?  Click here for download (282KB Word Document) or click here for html version (~350KB)

Firewalls are often put in place as the only line of defence against the Internet and the internal network.  As the amount of hacking activity on the Internet is increasing, relying so heavily on just one mechanism for protection doesn’t always give you the security you need.  Although a well-configured firewall can be very secure, ideally additional layers of protection such as an IDS system are needed, and greater security can be accomplished by installing newer Artificially Intelligent firewalls or Distributed firewalls in place of the standard network firewall.

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Project:    WinRoute Firewall Log File Analyser.  Click here for download (1.30MB Word Document with embedded C++ source code)

This is a brief outline of what my project set out to achieve:-

• Log file gets imported from WinRoute and stored in a database file.
• Depending on logging options set-up within WinRoute (obviously my program can only analyse what its given), alert user of any suspicious activity (such as port scans, etc).
• Produce Reports such as number of potential attacks, attack types, etc, etc.
• Give details about previous attacks from specific IP addresses/Subnets.
• IP/Subnet Exclusion or 'HomeNet' settings
• Database browsing
• User editable attack rules
• Black List of IP addresses and the attacks they’ve performed.

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For more information about the above pieces of work, please email me.