Whole home proxies: Bringing enterprise-grade security to residential networks

Curtis R. Taylor; Craig A. Shue; Mohamed E. Najd

doi:10.1109/ICC.2016.7511094

Whole home proxies: Bringing enterprise-grade security to residential networks

Curtis R. Taylor, Craig A. Shue, Mohamed E. Najd

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Abstract

While enterprise networks follow best practices and security measures, residential networks often lack these protections. Home networks have constrained resources and lack a dedicated IT staff that can secure and manage the network and systems. At the same time, homes must tackle the same challenges of securing heterogeneous devices when communicating to the Internet. In this work, we explore combining software-defined networking and proxies with commodity residential Internet routers. We evaluate a whole home proxy solution for the Skype video conferencing application to determine the viability of the approach in practice. We find that we are able to automatically detect when a device is about to use Skype and dynamically intercept all of the Skype communication and route it through a proxy while not disturbing unrelated network flows. Our approach works across multiple operating systems, form factors, and versions of Skype.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479966646
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511094
State	Published - Jul 12 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: May 22 2016 → May 27 2016

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Name	2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016

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Conference	2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuala Lumpur
Period	05/22/16 → 05/27/16

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1422180. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Taylor, C. R., Shue, C. A., & Najd, M. E. (2016). Whole home proxies: Bringing enterprise-grade security to residential networks. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016 Article 7511094 (2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2016.7511094

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Whole home proxies: Bringing enterprise-grade security to residential networks. / Taylor, Curtis R.; Shue, Craig A.; Najd, Mohamed E.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. 7511094 (2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016).

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