Authentication Header (AH) and Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) are a part of the IPSec components, they are network layer protocols allowing secured communications through a VPN tunnel. Within a firewall to enable communication for AH one will use protocol 50 and for ESP protocol 51 (Frankel, Hoffman, Orebaugh & Park, 2008), both protocols 50 and 51 can be enable within the same end-to-end IPSec connection which is the Tunnel Mode connected by two gateways. Nonetheless, for Transport Mode, there are some restrictions in the order in which they appear. While AH supports connectionless integrity and authentication of the packets, ESP provides data origin authentication and confidentiality through the use of encryption, both AH and ESP provide …show more content…
optional replay protection. The AH authentication covers the entire IP packet including header and ESP authentication covers only IP datagram portion of the packet (IBM, n.d.). A Tunnel Mode is a gateway-to-gateway or gateway-to-host VPN connection, and a Transport Mode is a Host-to-Host connection VPN, another difference between Transport Mode and Tunnel Mode is that NAT travers is supported by Tunnel Mode while not by Transport Mode (Juniper, 2017).
While both AH and ESP provide a level of security for data being transmitted, a Tunnel Mode encrypts the entire IP packet and assign new headers creating a new and larger packet to protect original data and header alike, this method is frequently used in a Site-to-Site VPN. Also, a Tunnel Mode is less susceptible to attacks while data are in transit between the two gateways, as mentioned previously, tunnel mode encapsulates the entire …show more content…
packet. The advantages of using AH and ESP in conjunction within both Transport mode or Tunnel Mode is and extra layer of protection as ESP supplements upon AH’s data integrity and authentication by adding encryption for confidentiality. As the AH provides authentication for the entire packet, the ESP provides payload authentication but more overhead cost then AH. Furthermore, ESP payload padding can also hide the true size of a packet, concealing more data information and external characteristics of the packets (RFC 2041, 1998), an end-to-end secured private connection within a public infrastructure such as the internet. The disadvantages of using both AH and ESP in IPSec tunnel would be that the extra time and double effort in encryption and decryption process at the source and destination gateways.
Therefore, using both AH and ESP in the same VPN connection will require four SAs, while each direction requires a Security Association for AH or ESP individually, this will double the gateways’ effort in calculation of algorithm and phase I and II setup process, CPU utilization, also creates larger size packets and slower traffic at the bottleneck (gateways). Another issue with combining both AH and ESP encapsulation in the same end-to-end VPN connection will cause NAT issues, because the AH packets can change time-to-live (TTL) field, when AH goes through the entire IP packet including header with a message digest, if the field in the original packet is changed, the authentication fails and packet discarded, for this reason AH and NAT will not work together (Phifer, n.d.), hence if there is NAT being used in a VPN situation, AH + ESP is not
recommended. For a Tunnel Mode Security Associations (SAs), AH and ESP used in conjunction can be in any order because AH and ESP provide no extra protection over each other in a Tunnel Mode, the Tunnel Mode already encrypts the entire IP packet. Nevertheless, for a Transport Mode Security Associations (SAs), Only one order is recommended by RFC 2401, “in conjunction with ESP, AH SHOULD appear as the first header after IP, prior to the appearance of ESP” (this is from the already encapsulated packet view). Since AH is applied to both part of IP header and upper layer protocol, in Transport Mode, when AH is used in conjunction with ESP, the AH should appear as the first header behind the IP, it should precede ESP and applied to the cipher output of ESP (RFC 2041, 1998), this relates to a competed packet with both AH and ESP encryption. To look at it from another direction, when building a packet, ESP should be performed before AH because AH cannot authenticate the entire packet it only rans check on the header and it also encapsulates the entire packet while ESP does not protect IP headers, it only covers the IP datagram it encapsulates. That is to say, encrypt a packet with ESP first to have datagram protected, then use AH to cover the entire packet.
The servers can be placed on a server rack which will hold the main network devices such as switches, routers and the modem as well as the firewall and the Intrusion Detection System. This room should have restricted access and only authorized personnel must have access to it, by using sophisticated keycard systems and even having additional security procedures such as biometrical readers etc. It was also proposed to get rid of Motorola SB3100 and Net Gear MR814 to increase the overall security with more advanced networking devices to provide new security features such as VLANs, access lists, and secure protocols.
Enclosed is a rough high-level conceptual view of the communication channels. This is very preliminary as we don't what suitable devices we can use for multiplexers, demux, and converters. The idea is to design a full-duplex serial com link between point A and B. The bandwidth is limited in the copper wiring (telephone line) probably would not go any higher than 115 kbps using a modem a constraint distance of 5 miles.
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Maintain accurate inventory of control System Devices and check the exposure of this devices to External Networks:
IPSec – Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) - is a protocol suite for secure Internet Protocol (IP) communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session.
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There are problems with both ASA extremes (i.e. 10 ASA & 2000 ASA) which means that a compromise must be made somewhere in between
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There are some that may have seen the obvious similarities of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft and thought they were the same, but this is untrue. Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft were troubled to say the least, but for very different reasons that affected their writing as such. Poe suffered from depression and found solace in alcohol. H.P. Lovecraft was very unstable and suffered a few breakdowns before he found any sort of recognition. Although, Lovecraft was heavily influenced by Poe, the content in his stories were drastically different. Poe focused primarily on death, loss, and lost love, whereas Lovecraft introduced a variety of new supernatural beings that brought out our greatest fears and his, of
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