- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (8 Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1565921240
- ISBN-13: 978-1565921245
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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In the vast and varied universe of computer books, a few stand out as the best of their subject areas. Building Internet Firewalls is one of these. It's deep, yet carefully focused, so that almost anything you might want to know about firewall strategies for protecting networks is here. Plus, there's a lot of information on the reasons we build firewalls in the first place, which is to say the security risks that come with Internet connectivity. You'll learn a great deal about Internet services and the protocols that provide them as you follow this book's recommendations for stifling attacks.
If there's a shortcoming to this book, it is its lack of coverage of the turnkey firewall products that are becoming popular among homes and small office users. Emphasis here is on more complicated network defences that require careful design and setup--both design and implementation are the order of the day here. The authors carefully enumerate the threats they see in various situations, go into some detail on how those threats manifest themselves, and explain what configuration changes you can make to your perimeter defences to repulse those threats. Plenty of illustrations make points about good and bad security strategies (you want to put the routers here and here, not here or here). You'll learn a lot, no matter how much experience you have, by reading this book cover to cover. --David Wall, Amazon.com
Topics covered: Means of protecting private networks from external security threats. The authors go into detail on attackers' means of exploiting security holes in common Internet services, and show how to plug those holes or at least limit the damage that can be done through them. With coverage of Unix, Linux, and Windows NT, the authors detail their philosophies of firewall design and general security policy. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
OpenBSD Journal, January14, 2002
This is a book that is useful on many levels, and by many people within an organization.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love this book. It truly is the Holy Bible of Firewalls. At the time the book was written Unix was by far the main platform for Firewalls. Today there are several programs which have ported to NT such as Gauntlet, Raptor, Firewall-1, and more..
Since most people forget that securing you network has more to do with protocols than what OS you run they get cought up in flame wars between Unix and NT - what a waste of time..
If you're a Network Administrator like me then you are Agnostic in your flavor of OS. You use the tools that fit the job.. That's exactly what this book does! It starts out by saying that it's platform independent, although at the time of writing they used Unix in their examples, but whether you are NT or Macintosh it doesn't flippin' matter! By learning what a Bastion host is, a screening router, a choke router, packet filtering, etc. you will clearly learn ALL the most crucial information on network Firewalls.. What more could you ask for? This book TRULY lives up to its name.. My only regret is that I didn't buy it sooner!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Both an excellent and readable introduction to the subject, and (possibly more importantly) an invaluable reference work.
It also gives you enough information to set up a firewall regime "on the cheap" using Linux based equipment.
This book clearly explains how to set up packet filtering proxies and the like for just about every kind of service you can think of. I used it to set up Cisco systems and find it much easier than Cisco's rather foggy documentation.
Having said that a reasonable knowledge of TCP/IP is assumed and beginners should probably read TCP/IP Network Administration from the same publisher first.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read this book at the level of System Administrator, with a basic knowledge of system security. It has given me a great deal of insight into the different methods of infrastructure possible in securing a network from one to one thousand systems; most refreshingly it is not written by a Firewall vendor and so the principles of Security are what it concentrates on. I could quite happily secure a Unix system now without RELYING on specific software; most importantly, I shall NEVER be complacent about System/Network Security again!
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Suitable as both introduction and reference
Like many software books, it's hard to write something that manages to balance theory and practice, since the practical aspects keep changing (new software, new standards...). Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2003
Very Good
Friend Lent me a copy and It seems invaluable. Better and value for money in comparison with checkpoint Firewall -1.
Good for all Network Administrator.
Published on 12 Sep 2000 by A KUTEYI
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