%0 Journal Article %T Design and Implementation of a Network Security Model for Cooperative Network %A Salah Alabady %J International Arab Journal of e-Technology %D 2009 %I Arab Open University %X In this paper a design and implementation of a network security model was presented, using routers and firewall.Also this paper was conducted the network security weakness in router and firewall network devices, type of threats andresponses to those threats, and the method to prevent the attacks and hackers to access the network. Also this paper provides achecklist to use in evaluating whether a network is adhering to best practices in network security and data confidentiality. Themain aim of this research is to protect the network from vulnerabilities, threats, attacks, configuration weaknesses and securitypolicy weaknesses. %K Network security %K network management %K threats %K security policy %U http://www.iajet.org/iajet_files/vol.1/no.2/Design%20and%20Implementation%20of%20a%20Network%20Security%20Model%20for%20Cooperative%20Network.pdf