Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance - Softcover

Santos, Omar; Frahim, Jazib

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587052091 ISBN 13: 9781587052095

Publisher: Cisco Press, 2005

Synopsis

Identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks

• Understand the evolution of security technologies that make up the unified ASA device and how to install the ASA hardware
• Examine firewall solutions including network access control, IP routing, AAA, application inspection, virtual firewalls, transparent (Layer 2) firewalls, failover and redundancy, and QoS
• Evaluate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions including IPS integration and Adaptive Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM) configuration
• Deploy VPN solutions including site-to-site IPsec VPNs, remote- access VPNs, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Learn to manage firewall, IPS, and VPN solutions with Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM)

Achieving maximum network security is a challenge for most organizations. Cisco® ASA, a new unified security device that combines firewall, network antivirus, intrusion prevention, and virtual private network (VPN) capabilities, provides proactive threat defense that stops attacks before they spread through the network.

 

This new family of adaptive security appliances also controls network activity and application traffic and delivers flexible VPN connectivity. The result is a powerful multifunction network security device that provides the security breadth and depth for protecting your entire network, while reducing the high deployment and operations costs and complexities associated with managing multiple point products.

 

Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance is a practitioner’s guide to planning, deploying, and troubleshooting a comprehensive security plan with Cisco ASA. The book provides valuable insight and deployment examples and demonstrates how adaptive identification and mitigation services on Cisco ASA provide a sophisticated security solution for both large and small network environments.

 

The book contains many useful sample configurations, proven design scenarios, and discussions of debugs that help you understand how to get the most out of Cisco ASA in your own network.

 

“I have found this book really highlights the practical aspects needed for building real-world security. It offers the insider’s guidance needed to plan, implement, configure, and troubleshoot the Cisco ASA in customer environments and demonstrates the potential and power of Self-Defending Networks.”

–Jayshree Ullal, Sr. Vice President, Security Technologies 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.

 

About this title

About the Author

Jazib Frahim, CCIE® No. 5459, is a senior network security engineer in the Worldwide Security Services Practice of Advanced Services for Network Security at Cisco. He is responsible for guiding customers in the design and implementation of their networks with a focus in network security.

 

Omar Santos is a senior network security engineer in the Worldwide Security Services Practice of Advanced Services for Network Security at Cisco. He has more than 12 years of experience in secure data communications.

 

From the Back Cover

The definitive insider's guide to planning, installing, configuring, and maintaining the new Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance
Delivers expert guidance from Cisco TAC engineers for securing small and medium business networks with the newly released Cisco all-in-one network security solution
Covers the latest PIX Version 7 OS
Incorporates detailed configuration examples with screenshots and command-line references
Covers unified firewall, IPS, and VPN management
Achieving maximum network security has been a challenge for many organizations, especially those that cannot afford to purchase, master, and maintain a separate security device such as a PIX or IPS system for each and every security need. To better meet the needs of these customers, Cisco Systems recently launched an all-in-one security solution called ASA that aims to offer a more affordable and simplified security solution. Cisco ASA- All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Applicance introduces this new suite of converged security appliances and provides a complete configuration and troubleshooting guide from the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) experts at Cisco Systems. This book brings together expert guidance for virtually every challenge the reader will face--from building basic network security policies to advanced VPN and IPS implementations. This book has five parts, which contain three technology-based sections- Firewall, IPS, and VPN. Each section is comprised of many sample configurations, accompanied by in-depth analysis of design scenarios. Learning is further enhanced by discussing a set of debugs included in each section. Ground-breaking features like WebVPN, virtual and Layer-2 firewalls are discussed extensively.
Jazib Frahim, CCIE No. 5459 (Routing and Switching, Security), is a technical leader in the Security and VPN Solutions Group of the Technical Assistance Center at Cisco Systems. He has written numerous Cisco online documentations and participated as an active member on Cisco's online forum (NetPro).
Omar Santos is a senior engineer in the Security and VPN Solutions TAC Group at Cisco. He has more than 10 years of experience in secure data communications and has worked in complex implementations with the US Marine Corps and DoD. He has written many Cisco online technical documents and configuration guidelines and delivered numerous technical presenations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cisco Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587052091
• ISBN 13: 9781587052095
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 840