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Author: William R. Cheswick
ISBN : 020163466X
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The best-selling first edition of Firewalls and Internet Security became the bible of Internet security by showing readers how to think about threats and solutions. The completely updated and expanded second edition defines the security problems students face in today's Internet, identifies the weaknesses of the most popular security technologies, and illustrates the ins and outs of deploying an effective firewall. Students learn how to plan and execute a security strategy that allows easy access to Internet services while defeating even the wiliest of hackers. Written by well-known senior researchers at AT&T Bell Labs, Lumeta, and Johns Hopkins University the students will benefit from the actual, real-world experiences of the authors maintaining, improving, and redesigning AT&T's Internet gateway.
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- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (March 6, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 020163466X
- ISBN-13: 978-0201634662
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.3 x 9.1 inches
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Free Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker
My hope was that reading Firewalls and Internet Security - Second Edition would be a chance to sit at the feet of the masters, but I was disappointed. Part of the problem is the title, this is not a firewall book; this is an internet oriented security overview. The writing style is professional, but terse, you will learn the names of many important things, but you will not learn how to DO anything and you will not even learn ABOUT very much. However the book gives you the NAMES of many important topics that you can go research on your own and is valuable for that. It is well edited and has a flawless layout making it a fast easy read because the technical level is low and the book is short.The book opens with a few pages on security truisms, my favorite part of the book and a dazzling display of intellect! All the material after the truisms and up to chapter 9 is a quick tour of topics like Security Policy, Host-Based Security and Perimeter Security, Authentication, and all the Protocols in a couple paragraphs each.
Chapters 9 - 12 are where the book covers perimeters. Chapter 9 is dated material, Static Packet Filters, Network Topology, Application Gateways, and SOCKS. The book begins to improve in Chapter 10, remember, these authors really know their stuff and if you read closely there is wisdom here. The "Use the phone?" comment in the H.323 and SIP example firewall rule was a classic. Sadly, this whole critically important section got one thin paragraph.
In Chapter 13, there is a fascinating discussion about using routing tricks to protect a host, but it isn't clear to me you can implement this with the four sentences of information the authors provide. As you march on to Chapter 16, they have a few paragraphs on host security, name some types of IDSes and so forth.
Addison-Wesley in cooperation with William Cheskwick, Steven Bellovin and Aviel Rubin have produced yet another well-researched publication.This book is all about Internet security, firewalls, VPNs and much more, all of which are hot topics and renowned buzzwords within today's IT industry.
In the first chapter, the authors express their view on network security and demonstrate the different methods an Administrator can use in order to secure their network(s). This is carried out by categorizing security into Host-Based and Perimeter security.
The second and third chapters are approximately 50 pages covering basic protocols, including IPv6, DNS, FTP, SNMP, NTP, RPC-based protocols and a several more like the famous NAT. The chapters are concluded with a summary on wireless security.
The next five chapters (chapter 4 to 8 inclusive), analyze various attacks used against networks and server operating systems in an attempt to exploit them. There is a wealth of information concerning hacking, allowing the reader to enter the mind of a hacker in terms of what they think and how they proceed to meet their goal.
One complete chapter is dedicated to various password tactics in which one can ensure that a hacker's life is made more difficult should they attempt to break into a few accounts using well-known methods related to password guessing. CHAP, PAP, Radius and PKI are also analyzed.
Chapter 9 to 12 are dedicated to Firewalls and VPNs which, in passing, happen to be my favourite chapters. They offer an in-depth analysis of the Firewall concept, packet filtering, application-level filtering and circuit level gateways.