Reference no: EM133142255

Assignment - Securing System using IP Table Firewall

You are required to set up, configure, and test your firewall. You need to do research and reading to be able to complete this assignment.

You need to discuss the main uses, limitations, and possible security holes of your firewall and write it in your report. You should test that following packages are installed on your machines: Telnet, MySQL, and Apache webserver. Start the services, and test that they are working prior to your experiments with the IPTables firewall. Include screenshots in your answers to show that the services are working and the output of your results to show that the requested filtering is performed.

Important - You need to save copies of all different configurations (for each part) that you have done. (You should include your firewall rules and the results (screenshots) in the report)

Configure your firewall to:

1. Reject all incoming and outgoing ping packets.

2. Reject all incoming telnet packets and allow all outgoing telnet packets.

3. Reject all traffic coming to MySQL server.

4. Block incoming packets to the IP address of your virtual machine.

5. Allow packets inbound to port 80 (inbound) and reject packets going out (outbound) through port 80.

You then need to:

a. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of firewalls with iptables and make suggestions to overcome the disadvantages in your report.