Developing an Internet security model for an educational institute | |
| Author | Challapally Indira Kumari |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.IM-00-23 |
| Subject(s) | Internet (Computer network) in education Computer networks--Security measures |
| Note | A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IM-00-23 |
| Abstract | The utility of Internet and myriad of services being provided have brought forth many issues. One of the primary issues is the issue of security. The concept, approaches and level of security requirements vary according to an entity's environment and the entities information/ security policies. Though many commercial firewalls are developed for corporate security requirements the challenge of information security within an educational institutions are unique. The commercially available software are expensive and ill suited to address the unique requirements of an educat'ional institute. In an educational institute, there exists a difference between public information and confidential information. Public information is such that, it can be published outside for public use. Confidential information requires authentication and authorization to have access to it. In this model, there is a physical separation exists between these two, there by reducing the chances of accidental leakage of data. If a trusted user is authorized to have access to confidential information, trusted user will be given a copy of the original information by an application proxy. Data Integrity is maintained between external and Internal servers by ajava socket program automatically executing for every half an hour. A prototype has been developed with the use of FreeBSD, Apache Web server, Squid server. The model makes use of external/ internal servers, authentication to provide, flexible, high security system, at less cost suitable to the needs of an educational institute. |
| Year | 2000 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IM-00-23 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information Management (IM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Sadananda, Ramakoti; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Devadason, Francis Jawahar;Yulu, Qi; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2000 |