Goals
The goal of the Palisade project is to build tools to enable non security experts to build firewall policies and assist in maintaining the firewall. To this extend Palisade is comprised of a JAVA based policy generator, and a set of CGI scripts to notify the administrator of the status of the firewall. Included will be detailed instructions on securing both these components.

Features

• Encrypted Communication from Firewall to administration client.
  All CGI's and the Java applet use SSL to communicate to the server.
• Web Status Display
  Indicating the number of packets passed, the number of packet rejected/accepted/denied.
• Java Policy Generator
  This will allow the administrator to build policies remotely via their workstation It will be platform independent (ie it will use JDK 1.1)
• Protocols will be abstracted into profiles.
  This will prevent the user from having to research the different ports a protocol uses. All profiles are kept in a single text file.
• Kernel independent.
  The policies generated will be filter implementation independent. Conversion tools are included to convert between policies and ipchains and ipfw.
• GPL License

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