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For organizations of all sizes, the Cisco ASA product family offers powerful new tools for maximizing network security. Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance, Second Edition, is Cisco's authoritative practitioner's guide to planning, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting security with Cisco ASA. Written by two leading Cisco security experts, this book presents each Cisco ASA solution in depth, offering comprehensive sample configurations, proven troubleshooting methodologies, and debugging examples. Readers will learn about the Cisco ASA Firewall solution and capabilities; secure configuration and troubleshooting of site-to-site and remote access VPNs; Intrusion Prevention System features built into Cisco ASA's Advanced Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM); and Anti-X features in the ASA Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM). This new edition has been updated with detailed information on the latest ASA models and features.

Everything network professionals need to know to identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks with Cisco ASA
Includes detailed configuration examples, with screenshots and command line references
Covers the ASA 8.2 release
Presents complete troubleshooting methodologies and architectural references

Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is written by Omar Santos and Jazib Frahim and both of them are leading Security engineers from Cisco Systems. Hence you are in extremely capable hands and the book is worth every penny. Having said that, the book is huge (over 1000 pages) and it may not be feasible to read it cover to cover but it is filled with excellent information. It is comprised of 20 chapters emphasizing five key technology areas including Cisco ASA product overview and firewall portfolio, Firewall technology, IPS, Content Security (URL Filtering, Anti-X etc) and VPNs. The book is filled with configuration examples for both CLI and ASDM GUI. It covers ASA 8.2 code and hence the content is extremely current, fresh and relevant. The book explains firewall theory, implementation, tuning and troubleshooting in great detail, making it an excellent resource for Cisco ASA administrators and CCIE Security candidates as the lab test ASA firewall in great detail. I bought this book to learn more about firewall virtualization and transparent firewalls. The book spends over 100 pages on these two technologies and cover them with great detail. Virtualization is configured step by step using both CLI and ASDM and then important troubleshooting commands are also covered. Transparent firewalls are clearly explained with detailed configuration examples. Also the chapter contains a table showing readers how routed mode firewalls differ from transparent firewalls and what features are not supported when ASA is running in transparent mode. Only minor complaint I have is the book should dedicate one more chapter for a detailed case study and showcase all technologies like Site to Site VPNs, Remote Access VPNs, SSL VPNs, IPS, AntiX, Tranparent Firewalls and Virtual Firewalls at the same time by showing a enterprise network with one head office and two branch offices. This will help readers to see all technologies in action at the same time and further clarify things. Overall I am extremely satisfied with this product and strongly endorse it for CCIE Security candidates and Cisco ASA administrators as their one stop resource for Cisco ASA firewalls.

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