Enhanced Security for Network Communication With Proposed IS-IS Protocol

Abstract

This chapter is a literature review of intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS) routing protocol to provide basic security mechanisms against cyber-attacks and enhance network security. IS-IS was originally developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as a link state routing protocol. It was first built with the ability to route CLNPs or connectionless network protocols according to the OSI standard equal to IP. IS-IS is also developed so that it can accommodate routing for any layer three-based protocol. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1990 specified the support for IP and introduced IPv6 extensions in 2000. IS-IS protocol implementation was written as modules in order for it to be distributed freely and easily installed on the GNU routing software. SourceForge.net supported the project and gave access for developers to easily contribute to the project. The chapter elaborates the ISIS routing protocol for network security and proposes a critical survey on security routing protocols.