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Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook (2nd Edition) (Networking Technology: Security)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9781587054570
Edition: 2
ISBN: 1587054574
Label: Cisco Press
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Cisco Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 912
Publication Date: August 19, 2007
Publisher: Cisco Press
Studio: Cisco Press



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Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook, Second Edition, is a guide for the most commonly implemented features of the popular Cisco® firewall security solutions. Fully updated to cover the latest firewall releases, this book helps you to quickly and easily configure, integrate, and manage the entire suite of Cisco firewall products, including ASA, PIX®, 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.

 

Sections are marked by shaded tabs for quick reference, and information on each feature is presented in a concise format, with background, configuration, and example components.

 

Whether you are looking for an introduction to the latest ASA, PIX, and FWSM devices or a complete reference for making the most out of your Cisco firewall deployments, Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook, Second Edition, 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, Vice President of Engineering, Security Technology Group, Cisco

 

David Hucaby, CCIE® No. 4594, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky, where he works with health-care networks based on the Cisco Catalyst, ASA, FWSM, and VPN product lines. He was one of the beta reviewers of the ASA 8.0 operating system software.

 

  • 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, and traffic shunning
  • Define security policies that identify and act on various types of traffic with the Modular Policy Framework
  • 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
  • Configure Security Services Modules, such as the Content Security Control (CSC) module and the Advanced Inspection Processor (AIP) module

 

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.

 

Category: Networking: Security

Covers: Cisco ASA 8.0, PIX 6.3, and FWSM 3.2 version firewalls

 

$60.00 USA / $69.00 CAN





Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook, 2nd Ed.
Great Cisco 642-524 exam preparation. Hucaby is god when it comes to Cisco adaptive security devices.



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - I guess VPN isn't important
I have th august 2006 edition and it does not even mention VPNS.

Not much use



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great book but doesn't cover VPN
Great ASA book, updated for version 8, covers PIX too and helped for exam study. Does not cover anything on VPN! (IPsec or Web) which is one of the major purposes for the ASA - users travelling, work at home, vendor access. Omar Santos' book covers VPN although it is for older version 7. Would have given 5 stars if not for the VPN omission. Edward Huang CCSP/CCDA



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - gerat book for network engineers getting into NETSEC worrld
I am a network engineer (mainly voice and data) and recently had to start gearing up for ASA's and FWSM's.
This is a great book for engineers who need to get familiar to the security suite and basic configurations.

I now need to start readying on security guide lines and procedures which this book helped with the foundation of.

great book, easy to read, very useful



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Excellent reference manual covering most day to day admin tasks for the PIX and ASA
Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook
Second Edition
Author : David Hucaby
Publisher: Cisco Press
Reviewed by: Michael Cooter

Pros: Thorough, comprehensive, and in-depth
Cons: Not for ASA/PIX Novices, more suited for Firewall admins with solid experience. More of a reference than a book you would read cover to cover.

Chapter List: Chapter 1, "Firewall Overview", Chapter 2 "Configuration Fundamentals" Chapter 3 "Building Connectivity", ... Read More









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