Firewalls

Jumpstart for Network and Systems Administrators

By: John Vacca, Scott Ellis, John R. Vacc

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Paperback | 1 December 2004

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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.

ú Install and configure proxy-based and stateful-filtering firewalls
ú Protect internal IP addresses with NAT and deploy a secure DNS architecture
ú Develop an Internet/intranet security policy to protect your organization's systems and data
ú Reduce your susceptibility to an attack by deploying firewalls, data encryption and decryption and other countermeasures

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Firewalls: What Are They?
Type of Security Policy
Firewall Types
Choosing The Right Firewall
Firewall Topologies
Installation Preparation
Firewall Configuration
Simple Policy Implementation
Complex Services Management
Filtering Content
Publicly Accessible Servers Implementation
Architecture Selection
External Servers Protection
Firewall Architecture DNS Customization
Network Address Translation (NAT) Deployment
Privacy and Authentication
Tunneling: Firewall-to-Firewall
Auditing and Logging
Firewall Administration
Summary
Conclusions, and Recommendations
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