PCWEEK intranet and internet firewall strategies

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PCWEEK intranet and internet firewall strategies

Edward Amoroso and Ronald Sharp

Ziff-Davis Press, c1996

  • pbk.

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PC week intranet and internet firewall strategies

Intranet and internet firewall strategies

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PC week (New York, N.Y.)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209) and index

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This complete guide shows why you need firewalls and how they work. Master the essential basics of firewalls: configurations, protocol issues, administration and more. By identifying the real threats to your network, you can establish packet filters or application-level gateways before security is breached.

Table of Contents

  • What is a Firewall: Internetworking basics, FAQs, configurations
  • , protocol issues, auditing, lures and traps, and administration
  • why you need one: resources at risk, domains of trust, placement, multiple Firewalls on an Internetwork, weakest link problem
  • What are the real threats: threats of open Internetworking, growth of Internet, Intranets, threat of open protocols, Internet and Intranet attacks simplified, risk management
  • are all Firewalls the same? two major-types, packet filters, application-level gateways, additional types
  • how a Firewall works: inside a Firewall, packet processing locations, packet filtering, session filtering, proxy applications, user authentication, auditing and alarms
  • where to get Firewalls: building them from scratch, toolkits, commercial Firewalls, services
  • important features of Firewalls: security requirements, basic access control, Firewall integrity, administration, supported services, speed, user authentication, auditing, alarms, special features
  • the cost of Firewalls: cost of not having a Firewall, installation, administration
  • why you need a security policy: security policies and Firewalls, specific issues, practical policy excerpts
  • the on-going security process: countermeasures, cryptography, authentication, auditing and intrusion, detection, access control, using existing stuff. Appendices: terminology
  • example security policy
  • TCP/IP tutorial - Intro, message passing in the OSI model, TCP/IP basics, protocol and service suite, ports, numbers and types, IP addresses, IP packet format, TCP packet format, TCP sessions
  • Firewall vendors
  • decision-making matrix.

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