Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook (CCIE) - Softcover

Hucaby, David

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9781587051586: Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook (CCIE)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587051583 ISBN 13: 9781587051586

Publisher: Cisco Press, 2005

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The complete guide to the most popular Cisco PIX�, ASA, FWSM, and IOS� firewall security features

Learn about the various firewall models, user interfaces, feature sets, and configuration methods
Understand how a Cisco firewall inspects traffic
Configure firewall interfaces, routing, IP addressing services, and IP multicast support
Maintain security contexts and Flash and configuration files, manage users, and monitor firewalls with SNMP
Authenticate, authorize, and maintain accounting records for firewall users
Control access through the firewall by implementing transparent and routed firewall modes, address translation, traffic filtering, user authentication, content filtering, application inspection, and traffic shunning
Increase firewall availability with firewall failover operation
Understand how firewall load balancing works
Generate firewall activity logs and learn how to analyze the contents of the log
Verify firewall operation and connectivity and observe data passing through a firewall
Control access and manage activity on the Cisco IOS firewall
Configure a Cisco firewall to act as an IDS sensor

Every organization has data, facilities, and workflow processes that are critical to their success. As more organizations make greater use of the Internet, defending against network attacks becomes crucial for businesses. Productivity gains and returns on company investments are at risk if the network is not properly defended. Firewalls have emerged as the essential foundation component in any network security architecture.

Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook is a guide for the most commonly implemented features of the popular Cisco Systems� firewall security solutions. This is the first book to cover the revolutionary Cisco ASA and PIX� version 7 security appliances. This book will help you quickly and easily configure, integrate, and manage the entire suite of Cisco� firewall products, including Cisco ASA, PIX version 7 and 6.3, the Cisco IOS router firewall, and the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM). Organized by families of features, this book helps you get up to speed quickly and efficiently on topics such as file management, building connectivity, controlling access, firewall management, increasing availability with failover, load balancing, logging, and verifying operation. Shaded thumbtabs mark each section for quick reference and each section provides information in a concise format, with background, configuration, and example components. Each section also has a quick reference table of commands that you can use to troubleshoot or display information about the features presented. Appendixes present lists of well-known IP protocol numbers, ICMP message types, and IP port numbers that are supported in firewall configuration commands and provide a quick reference to the many logging messages that can be generated from a Cisco PIX, ASA, FWSM, or IOS firewall.

Whether you are looking for an introduction to the firewall features of the new ASA security appliance, a guide to configuring firewalls with the new Cisco PIX version 7 operating system, or a complete reference for making the most out of your Cisco ASA, PIX, IOS, and FWSM firewall deployments, Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook helps you achieve maximum protection of your network resources.

“Many books on network security and firewalls settle for a discussion focused primarily on concepts and theory. This book, however, goes well beyond these topics. It covers in tremendous detail the information every network and security administrator needs to know when configuring and managing market-leading firewall products from Cisco.”

―Jason Nolet, Sr. Director of Engineering, Security Technology Group, Cisco Systems

This security book is part of the Cisco Press� Networking Technology Series. Security titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals secure critical data and resources, prevent and mitigate network attacks, and build end-to-end self-defending networks.

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Synopsis:

Cisco PIX Firewall Handbook is a guide to the most commonly implemented features of the top selling Cisco Systems firewall security solutions. Whether a novice or experienced network security engineer, readers will be able to quickly and easily configure a wide range of Cisco PIX and IOS firewall features. Many features of these devices are complex and require many configuration steps for proper operation. The required commands are difficult to remember or require lengthy reading through the Cisco Documentation CD. In addition, the Cisco PIX firewall has very limited context-based help and the documentation is formatted quite differently from other products. Cisco PIX Firewall Handbook is designed to give concise information on how to quickly and correctly configure PIX Firewall features. As features and commands are presented, Cisco IOS Software and PIX commands appear side-by-side for quick reference. Security engineers and administrators can carry this book on-site and refer to it during hands-on installation or troubleshooting sessions.

The book is organized by families of features, and information on each feature is presented in a concise format, with background, configuration, and example components. Each section also has a quick reference table of commands that can be used to troubleshoot or display information about the features presented.

About the Author:

David Hucaby, CCIE� No. 4594, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky, where he works with healthcare networks based on the Cisco Catalyst, IP Telephony, PIX, and VPN product lines. David was one of the beta reviewers of the PIX version 7 Firewall operating system software.

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