PCWEEK intranet and internet firewall strategies
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PCWEEK intranet and internet firewall strategies
Ziff-Davis Press, c1996
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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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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