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Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

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Publisher: Cisco Press

Publication Date: 27-MAY-2005

Insert Date: 30-JUN-2005

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Protect critical data and maintain uptime with Cisco ASDM and Cisco Security Agent  Understand how attacks can impact your business and the different ways attacks can occur Learn about the defense-in-depth model for deploying firewall and host protection Examine navigation methods and features of Cisco ASDM Set up Cisco ASA, PIX Firewall, and ASDM hardware and software Use the Cisco ASDM startup wizard to safely connect your network to the Internet and securely add public devices such as mail and web servers to your network Authenticate firewall users and users of public...

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Troubleshooting Linux® Firewalls

Troubleshooting Linux® Firewalls

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 14-DEC-2004

Insert Date: 05-NOV-2004

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Covers Red Hat and SUSE When something goes wrong with your Linux firewall, you need to fix it—right now. You don't have time for endless newsgroup searches, confusing man pages, emails to the developers... it's an emergency! One book brings together all the step-by-step solutions and proven problem-solving techniques you'll need when the time comes: Troubleshooting Linux® Firewalls. Authors Michael Shinn and Scott Shinn are among the world's leading firewall experts; they've even been hired to protect computer security at the White House. In this book, they cover every area where Linux...

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Cisco Router Firewall Security

Cisco Router Firewall Security

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Publisher: Cisco Press

Publication Date: 10-AUG-2004

Insert Date: 24-OCT-2004

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Harden perimeter routers with Cisco firewall functionality and features to ensure network security Detect and prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks with TCP Intercept, Context-Based Access Control (CBAC), and rate-limiting techniques Use Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) to detect and filter unwanted and malicious traffic Use router authentication to prevent spoofing and routing attacks Activate basic Cisco IOS filtering features like standard, extended, timed, lock-and-key, and reflexive ACLs to block various types of security threats and attacks, such as...

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Essential Check Point™ FireWall-1® NG: An Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Guide

Essential Check Point™ FireWall-1® NG: An Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Guide

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 21-JAN-2004

Insert Date: 31-MAR-2004

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"When it comes to security products and technologies, experience is far and away the best teacher. PhoneBoy has been installing, running, and supporting Check Point FireWall-1 for years, and his experience shows in this book. Save yourself the pain of learning from your own mistakes--let PhoneBoy show you the right way to manage your FireWall-1 NG infrastructure." --Tina Bird, Computer Security Officer, Stanford University "Dameon has taken his original definitive guide and updated it thoroughly for NG. No other book is informed by his depth of experience with Check Point. Accept...

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Optimizing Network Performance with Content Switching: Server, Firewall, and Cache Load Balancing

Optimizing Network Performance with Content Switching: Server, Firewall, and Cache Load Balancing

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 02-JUL-2003

Insert Date: 24-DEC-2003

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Enrich the user experience while keeping control of your network Networking professionals: At last, comprehensive coverage of content switching technology is in your hands! Optimizing Network Performance with Content Switching: Server, Firewall, and Cache Load Balancing, by topic experts Matthew Syme and Philip Goldie, provides sharp insights into this wide-ranging, rapidly changing technology. You'll learn the concepts, the background, and the architectures of content switching, as well as how it works and where and why it should be deployed to maximize the performance of your networks and...

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Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition

Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Publication Date: 24-FEB-2003

Insert Date: 29-JUL-2003

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The best-selling first edition of Firewalls and Internet Security became the bible of Internet security by showing a generation of Internet security experts how to think about threats and solutions. This completely updated and expanded second edition defines the security problems companies face in today's Internet, identifies the weaknesses in the most popular security technologies, and illustrates the ins and outs of deploying an effective firewall. Readers will learn how to plan and execute a security strategy that allows easy access to Internet services while defeating even the wiliest of...

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Personal Firewalls for Administrators and Remote Users

Personal Firewalls for Administrators and Remote Users

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Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 19-DEC-2002

Insert Date: 28-MAY-2003

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Personal firewalls explained—for remote corporate and home users. In today's work environment, increasing numbers of mobile employees are using PCs, laptops, and handheld devices to connect to corporate servers. That's great for productivity, but it can also pose a security nightmare. Many of these remote systems are at best minimally protected against hackers and other intruders, which means they can provide an easy avenue into the network. An effective—and cost effective—way to address this liability is through the use of personal firewalls. In Personal Firewalls for Administrators and...

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Building Internet Firewalls, Second Edition

Building Internet Firewalls, Second Edition

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 26-JUN-2000

Insert Date: 27-SEP-2002

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In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks--and the need to protect both business and personal data--have never been greater. We've updated Building Internet Firewalls to address these newer risks. What kinds of security threats does the Internet pose? Some, like password attacks and the exploiting of known security holes, have been around...

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Practical Firewalls

Practical Firewalls

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 12-JUN-2000

Insert Date: 25-SEP-2002

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Practical Firewalls enables you to get a thorough understanding of all of the basic concepts involved in creating and maintaining a firewall. Aimed at beginning to intermediate network administrators, this book presents information in a manner so that you do not need a large background in the networking field. It provides "real world" methods, problems and solutions of value to you as a user. After reading this book, you will go away with a good understanding of firewall security policies, firewall design strategies, hardware specifications/requirements/variations, software/firewall tools,...