Firewalls: jumpstart for network and systems administrators

✍ Scribed by John R Vacca; Scott Ellis

• Publisher: Elsevier Digital
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Firewalls: what are they? --
Type of firewall security policy --
Firewall types --
Choosing the right firewall --
Defense in depth: firewall topologies --
Installation preparation --
Firewall configuration --
Simple policy implementation --
Complex web services management --
Content filtering --
Publicly accessible servers implementation --
Architecture selection --
External servers protection --
Internal IP security threats: Beyond the firewall --
Network address translation deployment --
Privacy and authentication technology --
Tunneling: firewall-to-firewall --
Auditing and logging --
Firewall administration.
Abstract:

Talks about installing and configuring a firewall. This book also helps you 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). Read more...