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Summary: Highly Reccomended
Review: This is the ultimate book on the fundamentals of Network Programming; not just Firewalls. This will teach you basic Network security. Recommended over Practical Unix and Internet Security. If you aren't interested in Firewalls - don't worry, it's not all about Firewalls.
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Summary: Informative Reference
Review: This second edition goes into great detail on how to build and maintain a firewall. It briefly discusses the attacks earlier this year on various well-known web sites and notes that one effective way of (if not toally stopping) slowing down these types of attacks is by use of a firewall.In the first section, it talks about the reasons for having a firewall and security strategies. The second section (Building Firewalls) consists of several chapters and describes topics like packet filtering, firewall architectures and design, proxy systems and bastion hosts. I gleaned a lot of good information from this section alone. The next section contains chapters describeing how to protect against attackers invading any Internet services (World Wide Web, email & netnews, FTP, IRC, DNS, games, etc). The last section describes methods to keep your network secure, such as settinp up security policies, how to maintain your firewall once it's up and running, and how to deal with a "break-in." There's also three appendices containing various information about firewall tools, mailing lists and newsgroups. All in all, an excellent book on building and maintaining a firewall.
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Summary: I think I am right when I say....
Review: This was a good book. Yes, I have to say it was very good. I did not really read the whole thing, but by just looking at the cover.. I could tell...
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Summary: This book is amazing!
Review: Truly, this book is one of the most intriguing and informative books in print today. No one can stand to be without it.
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Summary: Very thorough
Review: Very good coverage of basic firewall concepts. Thankfully, it's OS agnostic; the concepts can be applied to any firewall-type: Windows-based, Unix/Linux/BSD, or even hardware. Describes how to secure all sorts of configurations for businesses of small to large scale. Many pictures illustrate the ideal (and non-ideal) layouts of your network. Finally, at the end they wrap it all up by showing you a complete sample ruleset. I pretty much copied this to set up my home firewall. I sleep better at night thanks to this book.
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Summary: Very thorough
Review: Very good coverage of basic firewall concepts. Thankfully, it's OS agnostic; the concepts can be applied to any firewall-type: Windows-based, Unix/Linux/BSD, or even hardware. Describes how to secure all sorts of configurations for businesses of small to large scale. Many pictures illustrate the ideal (and non-ideal) layouts of your network. Finally, at the end they wrap it all up by showing you a complete sample ruleset. I pretty much copied this to set up my home firewall. I sleep better at night thanks to this book.
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Summary: conceptually nothing
Review: Written in I believe 1995, maybe their ideas were current then? This book should be given to customer service reps who aspire to better jobs and not anyone who has any technical skill whatsoever should read this book. You start flipping pages because its so basic, then you flip chapters. Ick. Besides the fact that some of the information is simply wrong.
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