Firewalls: Jumpstart for Network and Systems Administrators
Date: 06 May 2011, 00:30
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Security advice for any organization from a consultant with decades of experience 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 NASA's space station program (Freedom) and the Alpha until his early retirement from NASA in 1995. Scott Ellis is an independent consultant based in Chicago. PassWord: www.freebookspot.com
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