By
John Vacca, Renowned author of The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems ISBN:9780131426436
Scott Ellis, Independent Consultant, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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.
Audience:
System administrators, government computer security officials, network administrators
