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Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
By Greg Abelar
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Publisher: Cisco Press
Pub Date: May 27, 2005
ISBN: 1-58705-214-8
Pages: 288

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		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 ASA/PIX 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 ASA/PIX Security Appliance
				Cisco ASA/PIX Security Appliance Overview
				Models
				Installing the ASA/PIX Security Appliance
				Booting the ASA/PIX Security Appliance
				Troubleshooting
				Installing the ASA/PIX 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 ASA/PIX
				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
				Perimeter Best Practices
				Intrusion Prevention Best Practices
				Host Intrusion Prevention Best Practices
				VPN Best Practices
				Event Logging Best Practices
			Appendix B.  ASA/PIX Version 7 Advanced Features
				Authentication Enhancements
				Perimeter Protection Enhancements
				Intrusion Prevention Enhancements
				Security Management
				VPN Enhancements
				General Security Appliance Enhancements
			Appendix C.  ASA/PIX Version 7 and ASDM Software Recovery
				Obtaining the ASA/PIX Version 7 and ASDM Software
				Prepare Your PC for an ASA/PIX Upgrade
				Preparing ASA/PIX Security Appliance for Software Recovery
				Recovering the ASA/PIX to Version 7
				Installing ASDM 5.0 on the ASA/PIX Security Appliance
		Index