These are the trademarks of the Synaptics TouchPad family. Synaptics pioneered touchpads in computing and since then has expanded its TouchPad line for a host of other emerging applications. Less is better -- at least when it comes to touchpad input. By removing external buttons, ClickPad gives users an highly integrated "clickable TouchPad" with a larger input area.
The pressure's on -- and that's a good thing. ForcePad presents a new dimension in how users interface with machines, using varying levels of pressure to enable a more intuitive, precise user interaction.
As PC notebooks become more sophisticated, so too do their security requirements. SecurePad blends Synaptics TouchPad technology with fingerprint authentication that assures users' easy -- and secure -- login. Synaptics' TouchPad device drivers are customized and supported by notebook manufacturers to meet specific driver requirements for their individual products. Although this is a totally different implementation, it is functionally similar to the above method.
Now, the job of the packet filter driver seems simple enough. It will analyze every packet it sees, according to the criteria specified in the firewall rules stored in some internal data structure. It will look for things such as source and target hosts and ports, level of fragmentation, protocol type, packet flags, whether or not the packet is part of an already open connection, and so on. For example, if the protocol is TCP and the packet has the SYN flag set an attempt to open a connection , the filter will look up in its rules whether or not to allow opening the connection, based on the source and target hosts and ports.
If the connection is allowed, the filter will add it to an internal list of open connections. This is how the firewall keeps track of open connections, forming the base of stateful packet inspection. If a packet is allowed by the rules, or if it belongs to a connection on the list of open connections, it will be allowed through. If the packet is blocked by the rules, it will be silently dropped. It will not be passed on to the next layer, which will therefore have no knowledge of it ever existing.
Optionally, a waiting thread can also be signalled to show some feedback such as an alert on screen, or write to a log file. The per-process filter There is still the other driver to consider in a software firewall, and for good reason. Everything is just packets that are going in or out, things are happening conceptually from outside the machine from an application point of view.
As such, to do the actual per-process filtering, another filtering level is necessary, sitting at a higher place in the chain. There are other methods as well. For example, the WinSock API, the set of functions the vast majority of applications use to access the network, is built upon a layered model that allows for third party extensions to be inserted between the application interface and the base network protocol. In the WinSock model, all networking data goes through this chain, with each LSP being responsible for passing it along to the LSP immediately above or below, depending on whether the data is incoming or outgoing , after having optionally processed or altered the data according to its own function.
The firewall's per-process filter could be implemented as an LSP, sitting inside the protocol chain and selectively passing data on to the rest of the chain or silently dropping it according to its own criteria.
The LSP method, however, is not the most thorough filtering solution, as it relies on applications using WinSock to communicate. To bypass the LSP per-process filter, a rogue application would just need to use a driver of its own to communicate directly with the protocol driver through the TDI, thereby bypassing WinSock.
The first described method, wrapping the upper edge of the TDI itself, is a better alternative, as it works at a lower level. The job of the per-process filter is to analyze communication attempts by applications.
It will look at the process ID PID of the process attempting to send or receive data, and analyze its characteristics against the rule set, under a more or less complicated set of criteria, depending on the thoroughness of the firewall's per-process filtering implementation.
The crucial question, of course, is to ask, "is the executable that generated this process allowed to perform the action it's trying to perform? This is a matter of finding out the executable file from the PID, optionally performing a hash to verify the file's integrity against a known hash, looking for the file in the rule set, then checking if it is allowed to perform that action or not.
Problems with per-process filtering There are concerns with this implementation, however. For example, it would be desirable to check whether the process has any modules DLLs attached, and if so whether these modules are supposed to be there or not.
This makes sense since the code in attached modules will execute from within the context of the process they are attached to, so if an illegitimate process attaches EVIL. DLL along its own. The solution for this requires enumerating the loaded modules, finding their image files path and filename of the attached DLLs , then checking against a table of modules allowed to attach to that process.
Firewalls often check for this and ask whether to allow the module; but obviously this is only a placebo in a sense. The firewall can't possibly know all possible present and future DLLs, good and bad, that might exist, and therefore it is up to the user to guess whether a given DLL is good or not. Yet another concern is whether the process has had its code altered in memory a process can alter another process' memory region, changing it's code on the fly to alter its behaviour.
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