Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook (2nd Edition) (Networking Technology: Security) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dave Hucaby
Publisher: Cisco Press
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 912
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.9
ISBN: 1587054574
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9781587054570
ASIN: 1587054574
Publication Date: August 19, 2007
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P style="MARGIN: 0px"ICisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook/I, 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). /P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"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. /P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"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. /P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"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./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"ldquo;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.rdquo;/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"ndash;Jason Nolet, Vice President of Engineering, Security Technology Group, Cisco /P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"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./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P UL LILearn about the various firewall models, user interfaces, feature sets, and configuration methods/LI LIUnderstand how a Cisco firewall inspects traffic /LI LIConfigure firewall interfaces, routing, IP addressing services, and IP multicast support/LI LIMaintain security contexts and flash and configuration files, manage users, and monitor firewalls with SNMP/LI LIAuthenticate, authorize, and maintain accounting records for firewall users/LI LIControl access through the firewall by implementing transparent and routed firewall modes, address translation, and traffic shunning/LI LIDefine security policies that identify and act on various types of traffic with the Modular Policy Framework/LI LIIncrease firewall availability with firewall failover operation/LI LIUnderstand how firewall load balancing works/LI LIGenerate firewall activity logs and learn how to analyze the contents of the log/LI LIVerify firewall operation and connectivity and observe data passing through a firewall/LI LIConfigure Security Services Modules, such as the Content Security Control (CSC) module and the Advanced Inspection Processor (AIP) module/LI/UL P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"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./P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Category: Networking: Security/P P style="MARGIN: 0px"Covers: Cisco ASA 8.0, PIX 6.3, and FWSM 3.2 version firewalls/P P style="MARGIN: 0px" /P P style="MARGIN: 0px"$60.00 USA / $69.00 CAN/P
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 gerat book for network engineers getting into NETSEC worrld June 13, 2008
Soheil Samouhi (Dallas, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a network engineer (mainly voice and data) and recently had to start gearing up for ASA's and FWSM's. br /This is a great book for engineers who need to get familiar to the security suite and basic configurations. br / br /I now need to start readying on security guide lines and procedures which this book helped with the foundation of. br / br /great book, easy to read, very useful
 Excellent reference manual covering most day to day admin tasks for the PIX and ASA April 25, 2008
Michael L. Cooter
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook br /Second Edition br /Author : David Hucaby br /Publisher: Cisco Press br /Reviewed by: Michael Cooter br / br /Pros: Thorough, comprehensive, and in-depth br /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. br / br /Chapter List: Chapter 1, "Firewall Overview", Chapter 2 "Configuration Fundamentals" Chapter 3 "Building Connectivity", Chapter 4 "Firewall Management", Chapter 5 "Managing Firewall Users", Chapter 6 "Controlling Access Through the Firewall", Chapter 7 "Inspecting Traffic", Chapter 8 "Increasing Firewall Availability with Failover, Chapter 9 "Firewall Load Balancing", Chapter 10 "Firewall Logging", Chapter 11 "Verifying Firewall Operation", Chapter 12 "ASA Modules", Appendix A, "Well-Known Protocol and Port Numbers, Appendix B "Security Applicance Logging Messages" br / br /Book Review: br / br /Cisco ASA, PIX and FWSM Firewall Handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference manual that belongs on the shelf of anybody who manages a Cisco Firewall device. At nearly 870 pages, this is not a small book that you would want read cover to cover, but instead an excellent reference that you would use to learn more about a specific topic of ASA and PIX administration. br / br /I am familiar with the author, David Hucaby from reading his CCNP Switching book, written in 2000. Hucaby has a very clear and insightful writing style and has the ability to take complex topics and break them down to a more understandable level for novices. br / br /Chapters of interest to me were on Firewall Load Balancing , Traffic Inspection, also the on Failover. br / br / br /Summary: br / br /I highly recommend this book for any administrator who is responsible for an ASA or PIX. This book is not an great introduction to the topic, but would be better suited as a companion to "Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls" by Greg Alebar. br / br /
surveys Cisco's offerings February 11, 2008
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For the sysadmin of a Cisco firewall product, this book is an up to date survey of what Cisco offers in this arena. The book has a quick going over of the theory behind most firewalls. But the bulk of the text looks at the various product lines and how you can install and, more importantly, easily manage them on an ongoing basis. br / br /The screen captures are helpful. Showing that Cisco has put some thought into the usability of their boxes. br / br /I won't say the book makes for enthralling reading. It is perhaps best suited as a reference manual. Where the only sections you need are for your firewall model.
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