Design and Implementation of a Network Security Model for Cooperative Network

In this paper a design and implementation of a network security model was presented, using routers and firewall. Also this paper was conducted the network security weakness in router and firewall network devices, type of threats and responses to those threats, and the method to prevent the attacks and hackers to access the network. Also this paper provides a checklist to use in evaluating whether a network is adhering to best practices in network security and data confidentiality. The main aim of this research is to protect the network from vulnerabilities, threats, attacks, configuration weaknesses and security policy weaknesses. KeywordsNetwork security, network management, threats, security policy Received December 17, 2008; Accepted March 2 2009