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ISBN : 0735712328
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The most practical, comprehensive solution to defending your network perimeter. Get expert insight from the industry's leading voices: Stephen Northcutt and the expertise of the SANS team. Inside Network Perimeter Security is a practical guide to designing, deploying, and maintaining network defenses. It discusses perimeter components such as firewalls, VPNs, routers, and intrusion detection systems, and explains how to integrate them into a unified whole to meet real-world business requirements. The book consolidates the experience of seventeen information security professionals working together as a team of writers and reviewers. This is an excellent reference for those interested in examining best practices of perimeter defense and in expanding their knowledge of network security. Because the book was developed in close coordination with the SANS Institute, it is also a valuable supplementary resource for those pursuing the GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst (GCFW) certification.
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- Series: Inside (New Riders)
- Paperback: 712 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (June 28, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735712328
- ISBN-13: 978-0735712324
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Free Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems )
The first thing that appeals to the reader of this excellent book
["Inside Network Perimeter Security" by Steven Northcutt, et al] is a
curious title. So will the authors take the reader "inside perimeter"
or will they cover the perimeter security inside and out? In fact,
they excel at both. It is well known that the defense perimeter of the
modern Internet-enabled business is not just the choke router
connecting the company to the public network. Perimeter manifests
itself in wireless leaks outside the building, in VPN links stretching
out to partners an suppliers and forgotten modems on the company
premises.The books effectively straddles several difficult bordelines, that
adds significant value to it. For example, authors manage to not
express their preferences and provide coverage for both Windows and
UNIX, free and commercial software. Moreover, the book has both
valuable hands-on exercises (right down to 'permit icmp any any
packet-too-big' and 'SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP') and strategic business
aspects (choosing the network design based on business and industry
requirements).
The book goes well beyond perimeter defense, stretching onto security
monitoring, incident response, vulnerability analysis, security audit
and network performance. Especially fun was a chapter devoted to the
"adversarial review". Security vs performance seem to be a timeless
conflict. The chapter is dedicated to this important aspect of
security design, covering performance impact of various security
technologies.
The important advantage of the book is real-life examples, case
studies and sample network security designs.
must come to pass. And with the publication of Inside Network Perimeter Security, a good thing has DEFINITELY come to pass! With 18 years in the IT field, I have had the "blessing" of using literally thousands of vendor manuals, after-market "self-help" books, tutorials, resource kits and the like; covering operating systems, programming languages, networking, security, applications and utilities. Until now, I've found that I can invariably stick each one into one of my three "personal" review categories.
1. Idiot's Guide - information so general that the only people who could possibly derive any value from it are those who can best be evaluated on a performance review as: "Can IDENTIFY a computer 2 out of 5 times without assistance".
2. Trivial Pursuits - jam-packed with obscure tricks, keyboard shortcuts, links to Easter Eggs, and advanced functions that 98% of users will never have legitimate use for. Tries to be all things to all readers, and fails miserably. You wind up kicking yourself for paying [money] for 800 pages, and only using 5 of them.
3. Guru Goulash - so specific and/or technical that there are perhaps 100 people on Earth who can make sense of - and properly apply - the information it contains. You wonder why the author didn't save a boatload of paper and email a pdf to those 100 people, since he/she probably knows most of them. However, the author could have increased the value 100-fold simply by writing "cleanly" and intelligibly. IBM System 360 manuals, anyone?
BUT: after reading Inside Network Perimeter Security, I may have to develop a new category. The authors have hit the elusive "Sweet Spot"!