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Firewalls: Jumpstart for Network and Systems Administrators
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by John R. Vacca and Scott Ellis
Sales Rank: 1058435
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Discount: 23 %
$19.45
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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Digital Press; 1 edition December 6, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1555582974
ISBN-13: 978-1555582975
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
In this book, you will gain extensive hands-on experience installing and configuring a firewall. You will also learn how to allow access to key Web services while maintaining your organization's security, as well as how to implement firewall-to-firewall virtual private networks (VPNs). You will learn how to build a firewall to protect your network; provide access to HTTP and FTP services on the Internet, and implement publicly accessible servers without compromising security. Furthermore, throughout the book, extensive hands-on examples provide you with practical experience in establishing security with firewalls. Examples include, but are not limited to: Installing and configuring Check Point FireWall-1; scanning to validate configuration using ISS Internet Scanner; configuring the firewall to support simple and complex Web services; setting up a packet filtering router; enhancing firewall configurations to support split-DNS; authenticating remote users; and protecting browsers and servers with a proxy-based firewall.
· Install and configure proxy-based and stateful-filtering firewalls
· Protect internal IP addresses with NAT and deploy a secure DNS architecture
· Develop an Internet/intranet security policy to protect your organization's systems and data
· Reduce your susceptibility to an attack by deploying firewalls, data encryption and decryption and other countermeasures
About The Author
John R. Vacca is an information technology consultant and writer. The author of twenty-one books and more than 330 articles, his most recent titles include Internet Security, VRML; Bringing Virtual Reality to the Internet, Official Netscape LiveWire Pro Book, and Intranet Security. John was also the configuration management specialist, computer specialist, and the computer security official for NASAs space station program (Freedom) and the Alpha until his early retirement from NASA in 1995. Scott Ellis is an independent consultant based in Chicago.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Without security electronic communications hold little value of in competitive arena of business management and operations. Firewalls are one of the key building blocks of the digital future. Security professionals, application developers, along with IT and network staff in all types of organizations will eventually need to work with firewalls. This book provides an extensive analysis of firewall technologies that are available. Design issues and architectures are also expertly covered. But this book goes beyond theory and analysis to explain numerous implementation issues. To move through an IT career and especially to move into management positions, IT professionals need a well-rounded knowledge of secure computing and communications technology. It essential for IT professionals to keep up with a quickly changing world and this book provides the knowledge that is necessary to achieve professional growth and development. This book is written for people that need to cut through the confusion about firewalls and get down to adoption and deployment. The book starts with the basic concepts and takes readers the all of the necessary learning steps to enable them to effectively use firewalls. Michael Erbschloe, author and educator
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