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Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

ISBN: 1587052148
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 120

Authors: Greg Abelar

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• Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Author
• About the Technical Reviewers
• Acknowledgments
• Icons Used in This Book
• Command Syntax Conventions
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Goals and Methods
• Who Should Read This Book?
• How This Book Is Organized
• Part I: Network Security and the ASAPIX Security Appliance
• Chapter 1. Internet Security 101
• Network Attacks: A Serious Problem
• Assessing Your Vulnerability to Network Attacks
• Attack Impact
• Attackers
• Protecting Yourself and Your Business
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Principles of Network Defense
• Understanding Defense in Depth
• Defense-in-Depth Implementation Details
• Network Intrusion Prevention
• Additional Security Best Practices
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Getting Started with the ASAPIX Security Appliance
• Cisco ASAPIX Security Appliance Overview
• Models
• Installing the ASAPIX Security Appliance
• Booting the ASAPIX Security Appliance
• Troubleshooting
• Installing the ASAPIX Software
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Exploring the Adaptive Security Device Manager
• Exploring the GUI
• Summary
• Part II: Securing Network Infrastructures with ASDM
• Chapter 5. Deploying Secure Internet Connectivity
• Introducing the ASDM Startup Wizard
• Basic Network Topology
• Using the ASDM Startup Wizard
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Deploying Web and Mail Services
• Review of Your Current Network Topology
• Designing the Network Topology to Include Web and Mail Services
• Use the ASDM Startup Wizard to Deploy Web and Mail Services
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Deploying Authentication
• Defining Authentication
• The Purpose of Authentication
• Implementing Authentication
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Deploying Perimeter Protection
• Perimeter Protocol Enforcement
• Customizing Protocol Inspections
• Perimeter Traffic Filtering
• Perimeter Denial-of-Service Protection
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Deploying Network Intrusion Prevention
• What Is Intrusion Prevention?
• Deploying Intrusion Prevention on the ASAPIX
• Summary
• Chapter 10. Deploying Host Intrusion Prevention
• Why Use Host Intrusion Prevention
• CSA Internals
• Implementing Host Intrusion Prevention
• Virus Scanners and CSA: The Complete Solution
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Deploying VPNs
• Understanding Virtual Private Networks
• Implementing VPN Using ASDM
• Monitoring VPN Usage with ASDM
• Summary
• Part III: Appendixes
• Appendix A. Deploying Effective Security Management
• Layer 2 Best Practices
• Authentication Best Practices
• Perimeter Best Practices
• Intrusion Prevention Best Practices
• Host Intrusion Prevention Best Practices
• VPN Best Practices
• Event Logging Best Practices
• Appendix B. ASAPIX Version 7 Advanced Features
• Authentication Enhancements
• Perimeter Protection Enhancements
• Intrusion Prevention Enhancements
• Security Management
• VPN Enhancements
• General Security Appliance Enhancements
• Appendix C. ASAPIX Version 7 and ASDM Software Recovery
• Obtaining the ASAPIX Version 7 and ASDM Software
• Prepare Your PC for an ASAPIX Upgrade
• Preparing ASAPIX Security Appliance for Software Recovery
• Recovering the ASAPIX to Version 7
• Installing ASDM 5.0 on the ASAPIX Security Appliance
• Index
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_N
• index_O
• index_P
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
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