Assignment 2: Securing system using IPTable firewall Due Week 8, Worth 25% You are required to set up, configure, and test your firewall. You need to do research and reading to be able to complete this assignment. You have to discuss the main use, limitations, and possible security holes of your firewall and write it in your report. You should test that following packages are installed on your machines: SSH and Webserver. Start the services and ensure that they are available for you to do experiment with IPTable Firewall. You should include screen shots in your answers to show the output of your results. Important: You need to save copies of all different configurations (for each part) that you have done. (You should include your firewall rules and the results in the report) Configure your firewall to: 1. Reject all ssh packets. 2. Allow ssh remote connections. 3. Deny ping. 4. Reject all traffic coming to port 80. 5. Block incoming traffic connection to your IP address of your virtual machine. 6. Allow traffic coming to port 80 (inbound) but reject traffic going out (outbound) through port 80. You then have to: a. discuss the advantages and disadvantages of firewalls with iptables and make suggestions to overcome the disadvantages in your report. b. discuss the role and significance of circuit relay firewall in securing communication by reflecting on the SOCKS package specified in RFC1928 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1928.txt) in 200 words. Submission You should submit your report on the Moodle. The length of the report should be no longer than 10 pages. Scoring Question Score Description Content 1 Denial of SSH access 5 Show that ssh packets are rejected 2 Access of SSH service 5 Show that ssh packets are accepted 3 Ping service denial 5 Deny ping 4 Ports 80 denial 10 Show all traffic coming to port 80 is rejected 5 IP address access control 10 Demonstration of Blocking traffic connection to your IP address of your virtual machine 6 Port 80 one way traffic 10 Show that traffic coming to port 80 is allowed but rejected going out through port 80 Subtotal: 45 Subtotal for content Presentation Experiment setup in Kali 15 Report should show the detail how you test 1,2,3,4,5,6 with real practical tests and/or with your gathered information IPTable advantages and disadvantages 15 Include advantages and disadvantages of firewalls with iptables and make suggestions to overcome the disadvantages in your report Circuit relay firewall 15 Role and significance of circuit relay firewall in securing communication by reflecting on the SOCKS package specified in RFC1928 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1928.txt) in 200 words. Spelling, Grammar, Presentation, Style References 10 The report’s content is appropriately written in English, with no spelling errors and grammar issues. The report is well presented, with diagrams, headings, tables and other visual aids. The report contains appropriate references and referencing style. Subtotal: 55 Subtotal for presentation Total: 100