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Firewall Fundamentals

ISBN: 1587052210
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 147

Authors: Wes Noonan, Ido Dubrawsky

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• Firewall Fundamentals
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Authors
• About the Technical Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• Icons Used in This Book
• Command Syntax Conventions
• Introduction
• Part I: Introduction to Firewalls
• Chapter 1. Introduction to Firewalls
• What Is a Firewall?
• What Can Firewalls Do?
• What Are the Threats?
• What Are the Motives?
• Security Policies
• Determining If You Need a Firewall
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Firewall Basics
• Firewall Taxonomy
• Firewall Products
• Firewall Technologies
• Open and Closed Source Firewalls
• Summary
• Chapter 3. TCPIP for Firewalls
• Protocols, Services, and Applications
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• Addressing in IP Networks
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Broadcast and Multicast
• IP Services
• IP Routing
• Applications Using IP
• Summary
• Part II: How Firewalls Work
• Chapter 4. Personal Firewalls: Windows Firewall and Trend Micro s PC-cillin
• Windows Firewall and Windows XP
• Trend Micro s PC-cillin Firewall Feature
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Broadband Routers and Firewalls
• How Broadband Routers and Firewalls Work
• Linksys Broadband RoutersFirewalls
• Linksys Requirements
• How the Linksys RouterFirewall Works
• Configuring Linksys
• Linksys Checklist
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Security Appliance
• PIXASA Features
• Choosing Between the PIX and the ASA
• Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Models
• How the PIXASA Firewall Works
• Configuring the Cisco PIXASA
• PIXASA Checklist
• Summary
• Chapter 7. LinuxBased Firewalls
• NetFilter Features
• NetFilter Requirements
• How NetFilter Works
• Configuring NetFilter
• NetFilter Checklist
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Application Proxy Firewalls
• Application Layer Filtering
• Proxy Server Functionality
• Limitations of Application Proxy Firewalls
• Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Firewall
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Where Firewalls Fit in a Network
• Different Types of Office Requirements
• Single-Firewall Architectures
• Dual-Firewall Architecture
• The Firewall System
• Where PersonalDesktop Firewalls Fit in a Network
• Where Application Firewalls Fit in a Network
• Firewalls and VLANs
• Using Firewalls to Segment Internal Resources
• High-Availability Firewall Designs
• Summary
• Part III: Managing and Maintaining Firewalls
• Chapter 10. Firewall Security Policies
• Written Security Policies
• Firewall PoliciesRulesets
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Managing Firewalls
• Default Passwords
• Maintaining the Underlying Platform
• Firewall Management Interface
• Management Access
• Common Firewall Management Tasks
• Summary
• Chapter 12. What Is My Firewall Telling Me?
• Firewalls and Logging
• Firewall Log Review and Analysis
• Firewall Forensics. (cisco cs)
• Summary
• Chapter 13. Troubleshooting Firewalls
• Developing a Troubleshooting Checklist
• Basic Firewall Troubleshooting
• Advanced Firewall Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting Example
• Summary
• Chapter 14. Going Beyond Basic Firewall Features
• Content Filtering
• Performing Application Filtering
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Virtual Private Networks
• Summary
• Endnotes
• Part IV: Appendixes
• Appendix A. Firewall and Security Tools
• Common Troubleshooting Tools
• Logging and Log-Analysis Tools
• Security-Testing Tools
• Appendix B. Firewall and Security Resources
• Firewall-Specific Information
• General Security Information
• Additional Reading
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
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