Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
ISBN: 1587052148
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 120
Pages: 120
Authors: Greg Abelar
- 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
- Perimeter Best Practices
- Intrusion Prevention Best Practices
- Host Intrusion Prevention Best Practices
- VPN Best Practices
- Event Logging Best Practices
- Appendix B. ASAPIX Version 7 Advanced Features
- Authentication Enhancements
- Perimeter Protection Enhancements
- Intrusion Prevention Enhancements
- Security Management
- VPN Enhancements
- General Security Appliance Enhancements
- Appendix C. ASAPIX Version 7 and ASDM Software Recovery
- Obtaining the ASAPIX Version 7 and ASDM Software
- Prepare Your PC for an ASAPIX Upgrade
- Preparing ASAPIX Security Appliance for Software Recovery
- Recovering the ASAPIX to Version 7
- Installing ASDM 5.0 on the ASAPIX Security Appliance
- Index
- index_A
- index_B
- index_C
- index_D
- index_E
- index_F
- index_G
- index_H
- index_I
- index_K
- index_L
- index_M
- index_N
- index_O
- index_P
- index_R
- index_S
- index_T
- index_U
- index_V
- index_W
Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
ISBN: 1587052148
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 120
Pages: 120
Authors: Greg Abelar