System and techniques for protecting wireless communication systems from
blended electronic attacks that may combine wireless and computer
attacks. One embodiment is an integrated hardware and software
firewall/protection system that provides a protection scheme that may
include an additional functional processing layer between the hardware
firewall and a mobile terminal. This additional functional processing
layer performs an extra layer of communications and security processing,
including such features as management of Internet Connection Firewall
(ICF) functions, key generation for firewall and virtual private network
(VPN) functions, and packet inspection and filtering.