I decided to start with computer source as my database. Then I limited the results to full articles and peer reviews. then I searched “network security breach” which only came up with two results. the first article was ‘LION IDS: a meta-heuristics approach to detect DDoS Attacks against Software-Defined Networks’ however the second article caught my eye right away. the article name is Detection of firewall configuration errors with updatable tree.

citation: Abbes, T., Bouhoula, A., & Rusinowitch, M. (2016). Detection of firewall configuration errors with updatable tree. International Journal of Information Security, 15(3), 301–317. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1007/s10207-015-0290-0

the article does provide some information that can be useful when the time is needed. the article does 33 references. then I used google scholar to do a trace back on the article where I have found 19 different article referencing back to the article I found. out of all the results only one or two may be beneficial to what I am researching. I did try to trace it back with another database but had a hard time finding any results.