Analysis and design of an Internet's security taxonomy

Abstract

The main objective of the different security services and mechanisms today are to provide privacy of information and to ensure that the tools used to establish a proper environment to the user are reliable and trusted. To provide a high level of security, an exhaustive approach that depicts a complete package of the Internet security classification categories is needed to show how, where and when each of the security services works. The proposed comprehensive Internet security taxonomy is innovative in its overall study of Internet security as the guidelines established to assess the taxonomy are strict. Many of the known Internet security attacks and the Internet security services associated with them are analyzed in this proposed taxonomy. A mapping of the security services against the security attacks and corresponding countermeasures is given. An assessment of the performance of the proposed taxonomy is also given, showing it to be useful, exhaustive and unambiguous.