A Novel Architecture for Enterprise Network Security

Abstract

The security and trustworthiness of enterprise networks have been a major concern in the research and practice of Intranet security. The security of endpoints and their network access are inevitably two important factors regarding enterprise network security. In this paper we present a novel architecture to enforce controls on endpoint application execution and network access, in which the policy decision point (PDP) and policy enforcement point (PEP) are introduced. A hybrid mechanism is proposed such that the control of application and network access of endpoints are integrated. Security analysis and performance evaluation prove that the proposed architecture maintains a balance between security and flexibility of enterprise network control.