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- Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
- Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Icons Used in This Book
- Command Syntax Conventions
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Goals and Methods
- Who Should Read This Book?
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part I: Network Security and the ASAPIX Security Appliance
- Chapter 1. Internet Security 101
- Network Attacks: A Serious Problem
- Assessing Your Vulnerability to Network Attacks
- Attack Impact
- Attackers
- Protecting Yourself and Your Business
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Principles of Network Defense
- Understanding Defense in Depth
- Defense-in-Depth Implementation Details
- Network Intrusion Prevention
- Additional Security Best Practices
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Getting Started with the ASAPIX Security Appliance
- Cisco ASAPIX Security Appliance Overview
- Models
- Installing the ASAPIX Security Appliance
- Booting the ASAPIX Security Appliance
- Troubleshooting
- Installing the ASAPIX Software
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Exploring the Adaptive Security Device Manager
- Exploring the GUI
- Summary
- Part II: Securing Network Infrastructures with ASDM
- Chapter 5. Deploying Secure Internet Connectivity
- Introducing the ASDM Startup Wizard
- Basic Network Topology
- Using the ASDM Startup Wizard
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Deploying Web and Mail Services
- Review of Your Current Network Topology
- Designing the Network Topology to Include Web and Mail Services
- Use the ASDM Startup Wizard to Deploy Web and Mail Services
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Deploying Authentication
- Defining Authentication
- The Purpose of Authentication
- Implementing Authentication
- Summary
- Chapter 8. Deploying Perimeter Protection
- Perimeter Protocol Enforcement
- Customizing Protocol Inspections
- Perimeter Traffic Filtering
- Perimeter Denial-of-Service Protection
- Summary
- Chapter 9. Deploying Network Intrusion Prevention
- What Is Intrusion Prevention?
- Deploying Intrusion Prevention on the ASAPIX
- Summary
- Chapter 10. Deploying Host Intrusion Prevention
- Why Use Host Intrusion Prevention
- CSA Internals
- Implementing Host Intrusion Prevention
- Virus Scanners and CSA: The Complete Solution
- Summary
- Chapter 11. Deploying VPNs
- Understanding Virtual Private Networks
- Implementing VPN Using ASDM
- Monitoring VPN Usage with ASDM
- Summary
- Part III: Appendixes
- Appendix A. Deploying Effective Security Management
- Layer 2 Best Practices
- Authentication Best Practices
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