Practical Firewalls (Practical Series) - Softcover

Mueller, Scott

 
9780789724168: Practical Firewalls (Practical Series)

Synopsis

Practical Firewalls enables you to get a thorough understanding of all of the basic concepts involved in creating and maintaining a firewall. Aimed at beginning to intermediate network administrators, this book presents information in a manner so that you do not need a large background in the networking field. It provides "real world" methods, problems and solutions of value to you as a user. After reading this book, you will go away with a good understanding of firewall security policies, firewall design strategies, hardware specifications/requirements/variations, software/firewall tools, VPN and Tunneling, monitoring and auditing techniques, and IP chains.

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About the Author

Terry Ogletree is a consultant. He has worked with computers since 1980. Terry has worked with UNIX and TCP/IP since 1985 and has been involved with Windows NT since it first appeared. He is the lead author for Upgrading and Repairing Networks, 2nd Edition (Que), and has contributed chapters to Special Edition Using UNIX, Third Edition (Que) and Windows NT Server Unleashed (SAMS).

From the Back Cover

Practical Firewalls enables you to get a thorough understanding of all of the basic concepts involved in creating and maintaining a firewall. Aimed at beginning to intermediate network administrators, this book presents information in a manner so that you do not need a large background in the networking field. It provides "real world" methods, problems and solutions of value to you as a user. After reading this book, you will go away with a good understanding of firewall security policies, firewall design strategies, hardware specifications/requirements/variations, software/firewall tools, VPN and Tunneling, monitoring and auditing techniques, and IP chains.

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