- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (23 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201699508
- ISBN-13: 978-0201699500
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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149,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Networking & Security > Security > Firewalls
- #45 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Networking & Security > Security > Network Security
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Firewall-1 is a complex product which makes the approach taken by Essential Check Point Firewall-1 particularly welcome. Basically, the author presents a series of heavily annotated pictorial mini-tutorials which take you from installation, through configuration, management and on to troubleshooting.
Each tutorial covers a specific feature, shows you how to access it within Firewall-1, what the options mean, which you can ignore under certain conditions and sensible default settings. In practice, the author goes much further, detailing the effects various settings have with and without other software, services and even product licences.
The author's advice on how to develop rule sets is welcome, nearly as much so as the detailed discussions on implementing them, which requires a reasonable understanding of how the rules will affect the user experience along with the network's security. Perhaps the most apposite section, though, covers the many supported authentication methods in Firewall-1. This is as thorough as the section on arranging secure external access to the firewall management software for sysadmins.
All in all, Essential Check Point Firewall-1 is a remarkably accessible book for anyone who has to administer Check Point's bestselling firewall solution. This is highly recommended. --Steve Patient
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Check Point Firewall-1aA A is the world's leading firewall - but it's extremely difficult to find in-depth, independent guidance on using it effectively. In this book, the maintainer of the world's leading Firewall-1aA A FAQ brings together comprehensive, expert guidance on every aspect of working with Firewall-1aA A : planning, configuration, deployment, administration, tuning, and troubleshooting. In this book, Daemon Welch draws upon his extensive hands-on experience in teaching and implementing Firewall-1aA A in a wide variety of corporate environments. He begins with a practical overview of firewall security, and what a firewall can and can't do. Welch covers planning your Firewall-1aA A installation, building your "rulebase," configuring Firewall-1, logging and alerting, remote management, authentication and passwords, content security, network address translation (NAT), encryption, high availability, performance tuning, and much more. The book contains detailed coverage of VPNs, including client-to-firewall VPNs, the VPN-1 SecuRemote Secure Virtual Network Architecture, secure clients, and VPN troubleshooting.Along the way, Welch provides practical rules and checklists that can't be found anywhere else. For all computer security specialists, network/Web professionals, and system administrators, and for super-power users responsible for protecting computer systems against intrusion.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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500 pages of pure class. Mr Welch clearly knows his subject and has managed to pack an enormous amount of information into what is a seriously easy-to-read book. The book's coverage spans installation, planning, rulebase design and troubleshooting, plus some more technical info in the appendices. All the Firewall-1 jobs I was wary of starting have now been trivialised into neat example scenarios, all in the same project-document type format. An example of how much thought has gone into this book can be seen under each screen-shot figure...e.g. "Figure 7-49 Policy Properties, Security Servers tab, HTTP Servers". No more trying to read the nearby text to find out how to make the dialog box appear.
This book is clearly meant to be used, and it will be on a daily basis!
This book is clearly meant to be used, and it will be on a daily basis!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've been visiting the phoneboy website for ages now, and to see the distilled wisdom of that site presented here in clear plain text is great.
In my view the secitons on the HTTP security server, stateful inspection of ICMP and the rules for LDAP are worth the cover price anyway.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
FW-1 is quirky product to work with (a strange mixture of GUI and command-line). This book provides a superb guide for installing and managing FW-1. Based on the Phoneboy enthusiast site, it gives coverage of the key issues and pitfalls to consider. The example configurations were extremely useful in helping me understand how to configure the Firewall. Of particular interest was the section on hardening your OS (NT or Solaris), prior to installing FW-1.
I certainly found the book a lot more honest and useful than the official Check Point CCSA/CCSE student guides.
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