Firewalls : Jumpstart for Network and Systems Administrators PDF
by John R. Vacca, Scott Ellis
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
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Elsevier Science
- Publication Date:21/12/2004
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- ISBN:9780080491325
Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Elsevier Science
- Publication Date:21/12/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780080491325
