Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: June 2000
Pages: 896
In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks--and the need to protect both business and personal data--have never been greater. We've updated Building Internet Firewalls to address these newer risks.What kinds of security threats does the Internet pose? Some, like password attacks and the exploiting of known security holes, have been around since the early days of networking. And others, like the distributed denial of service attacks that crippled Yahoo, E-Bay, and other major e-commerce sites in early 2000, are in current headlines.Firewalls, critical components of today's computer networks, effectively protect a system from most Internet security threats. They keep damage on one part of the network--such as eavesdropping, a worm program, or file damage--from spreading to the rest of the network. Without firewalls, network security problems can rage out of control, dragging more and more systems down.Like the bestselling and highly respected first edition, Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition, is a practical and detailed step-by-step guide to designing and installing firewalls and configuring Internet services to work with a firewall. Much expanded to include Linux and Windows coverage, the second edition describes:
- Firewall technologies: packet filtering, proxying, network address translation, virtual private networks
- Architectures such as screening routers, dual-homed hosts, screened hosts, screened subnets, perimeter networks, internal firewalls
- Issues involved in a variety of new Internet services and protocols through a firewall
- Email and News
- Web services and scripting languages (e.g., HTTP, Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, RealAudio, RealVideo)
- File transfer and sharing services such as NFS, Samba
- Remote access services such as Telnet, the BSD "r" commands, SSH, BackOrifice 2000
- Real-time conferencing services such as ICQ and talk
- Naming and directory services (e.g., DNS, NetBT, the Windows Browser)
- Authentication and auditing services (e.g., PAM, Kerberos, RADIUS);
- Administrative services (e.g., syslog, SNMP, SMS, RIP and other routing protocols, and ping and other network diagnostics)
- Intermediary protocols (e.g., RPC, SMB, CORBA, IIOP)
- Database protocols (e.g., ODBC, JDBC, and protocols for Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server)
The book's complete list of resources includes the location of many publicly available firewall construction tools.
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- Title:
- Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition
- By:
- Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, D. Brent Chapman
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Print
- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- June 2000
- Ebook:
- February 2009
- Pages:
- 896
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-871-8
- | ISBN 10:
- 1-56592-871-7
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-10325-5
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-10325-5
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Simon Cooper Simon Cooper is a computer professional currently working in Silicon Valley. He has worked in different computer-related fields ranging from hardware through operating systems and device drivers to application software and systems support in both commercial and educational environments. He has an interest in the activities of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and USENIX, is a member of the British Computer Conservation Society, and is a founding member of the Computer Museum History Center. Simon has released a small number of his own open source programs and has contributed time and code to the XFree86 project. In his spare time, Simon likes to play ice hockey, solve puzzles of a mathematical nature, and tinker with Linux. View Simon Cooper's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The illustration on the cover of Building Internet Firewalls is of a doorway of Gothic design, topped by a crenelated parapet. The period of Gothic architecture is often said to have begun in the mid-12th century, when the church of Saint-Denis was built, in Paris in 1144. The architect of that church is unknown. Although Gothic architecture was mainly used in the building of churches, by the late 13th century it was used for secular purposes also, including fortifications. The structure of the merlons (the raised portions of the parapet) in this illustration gives information about the date and place of construction. The oblique sides of the merlons suggest that the doorway was built in the 14th century, and the plain but sloping top suggests that it was built in England or France.Merlons were designed to provide defense to those inside the fortification, while crenels (the recessed portions between the merlons) let them shoot projectiles at attacking enemies. Given the size of this door, and the relatively low merlons, this may have been a postern, a doorway used by foot travellers to avoid lowering the main gate. Madeleine Newell was the production coordinator for this book. Nancy Crumpton provided all editorial and production services and wrote the index. Mike Sierra provided FrameMaker technical support. Nancy Kotary and Jane Ellin provided quality control.Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture. The cover layout was produced by Emma Colby with QuarkXPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font. Whenever possible, our books use a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds this binding's limit, perfect binding is used.The inside layout for this second edition was adapted by Alicia Cech and David Futato from a design created by Nancy Priest, Edie Freedman, and Jennifer Niederst, and was implemented by Mike Sierra in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. Chris Reilley created the figures for the first edition of this book; Robert Romano and Rhon Porter adapted those figures and created new figures for this second edition using Adobe Photoshop 5 and Macromedia Freehand 8. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary. |
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