Syngress - Best Damn
Firewall Book Period.
19.10.2003







Best Damn Firewall Book Period
by Dr. Thomas W. Shinder, Debra Shinder, Cherie
Amon, Anne Carasik-Henmi, Robert J. Shimonski
ISBN: 1-931836-90-6, 1293
Pages, June 2003

The Internets explosive growth over the last
decade has forced IT professionals to
work even harder to secure the private networks connected to
it, from erecting firewalls that keep out malicious intruders
to building virtual private networks
(VPN's) that permit protected,
fully encrypted communications over the
Internet vulnerable public infrastructure.
The Best Damn
Firewalls Book Period covers the most popular
Firewall products, from
Ciscos PIX Firewall to
Microsofts ISA Server
to CheckPoint NG, and all the
components of an effective firewall set up. Anything needed to
protect the perimeter of a network can be found in this book.

This is not a “best of the
marketing documentation for various solutions and
vendors. If you need marketing documentation, that’s always
available from the vendor’s Web
site.This book is great for those system administrators,
network administrators, and security administrators who are
looking for how various firewall systems work, and how they
can help secure your network. Each section provides detailed
information with regards to the technical implementations of
each firewall, in order to assist you in determining the
strengths of each solution, and deciding which implementation
would be best for your network.

The Best Damn Firewall Book Period is written
for the system administrators and network administrators as
these are the individuals who are going to be offering the
recommendations and implementing the security solutions. Most
of this book is quite technical, however this book could be
considered a great overview of the variety of security
concepts, exploits, and solutions for network security
engineers. It provides some basic information about firewalls,
as well as plenty of technical details that give you the nuts
and bolts of how the various firewalls work.



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