Here’s the utterly practical, pocket-sized reference for IT professionals who need to deliver security-enhanced Internet connectivity, fast Web access, and lower costs to their organizations. This unique guide provides essential details for using Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 to help protect and accelerate your e-business—whether it’s migrating from Proxy Server; employing the extensible, multilayer enterprise firewall; managing group access, configuration, and rules; monitoring usage and performance; detecting network intrusions; or performing other key...

Squid is the most popular Web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Squid improves network performance by reducing the amount of bandwidth used when surfing the Web. It makes web pages load faster and can even reduce the load on your web server. By caching and reusing popular web content, Squid allows you to get by with smaller network connections. It also protects the host on your internal network by acting as a firewall and proxying your internal web traffic. You can use Squid to collect statistics about the traffic on...