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Summary: good book even for absolute beginner
Review: I have acquired a lot of web development tools e.g. ASP, JSP, javascript and so on, but I know nothing on how internet actually connects or how to secure a web page. Firewall has always come to my mind when i think about internet security, but I have no idea what it exactly is. Then, I find "Building Internet Firewalls" in a local bookstore one day.
O'Reilly books always gives me bad impression that they are hard to understand and won't teach you from the basics. However, this book changes my mind totally.
This book doesn't assume you have any experience on system Administration or knowledge on internet security. It starts out by explaining what firewall is. Then, it presents firewall technologies, architectures and design. After all the basics, it connects the concepts of firewall to Internet and how to configure it on UNIX and Window NT. In the last few chapters, it teaches how to maintain a firewall.
I can't tell whether this book is good for system administration or someone already has some knowledge on firewall before. but for me, as an absolute beginner, it makes me understands firewall and I am confident that I can make my own firewall.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I have read just about every book out there about firewalls, and have to say that this book is: concise, to the point and EXTREAMLY informative. A must have for anyone that wants to learn about security, and more specifically firewall procedures, policies and configurations.
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: I have to agree with others here , that this is a good book on security. The authors really explained it well in a schematic way and readable even for a beginner in network security like me. It also has the best answers on the "religious" arguments of "UNIX vs NT" or "Buying vs Building" on which people hold strong beliefs. Another good performer from O'Reilly!
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Summary: Awesome book whether using NT or UNIX!
Review: I love this book. It truly is the Holy Bible of Firewalls. At the time the book was written Unix was by far the main platform for Firewalls. Today there are several programs which have ported to NT such as Gauntlet, Raptor, Firewall-1, and more.. Since most people forget that securing you network has more to do with protocols than what OS you run they get cought up in flame wars between Unix and NT - what a waste of time.. If you're a Network Administrator like me then you are Agnostic in your flavor of OS. You use the tools that fit the job.. That's exactly what this book does! It starts out by saying that it's platform independent, although at the time of writing they used Unix in their examples, but whether you are NT or Macintosh it doesn't flippin' matter! By learning what a Bastion host is, a screening router, a choke router, packet filtering, etc. you will clearly learn ALL the most crucial information on network Firewalls.. What more could you ask for? This book TRULY lives up to its name.. My only regret is that I didn't buy it sooner!
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Summary: Worthless
Review: I purchased this book in hopes to have a reference guide for Iptables/Netfilter or even CheckPoint, but was sadly misled. The book covers only theory of how to build a firewall, while sighting no practical examples. It covers protocols, ports, and common types of security threats, but again gives no practical examples of how to write chains, tables or rules to prevent these attacks. If your a newbie to system administration you will learn quite a bit from this book, but if your a system admin such as I am looking for a reference guide THIS IS NOT IT
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Summary: Firewall Book Review
Review: I think this is one of the best firewall books on the market. It is written in language that is easy to understand and has a lot of nice diagrams.
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Summary: Excellent, Practical Book
Review: I've used this book and a bunch of Linux FAQs and READMEs to build a Screened Subnet from scratch, and I knew nothing about firewalls until a couple of weeks ago. The examples and suggestions in the book are well explained, and if you spend the time to think about real-world examples/problems, you will begin to realize why the various configurations came to be. If the concepts are new to you, multiple readings of certain sections may be necessary, but eventually, the ideas will strike home. There is definitely enough in this one book alone (with some help from the Internet on OS specific details) that you can architect and build an effective firewall for your own network. Proof by example - my own firewall.
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Summary: a classic
Review: If you don't have this book, then you probably just started working on firewalls recently. Enough said.
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Summary: *THE* classic firewall resource
Review: If you're a firewall administrator or even thinking about it, then you MUST have this book. While its getting on in years, the fundamentals are here. This is the original reference guide for administrators and is still invaulable to me. I've had the book for two years and find it useful.
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Summary: Very Well Written
Review: Likes:
-This book is absolutely easy to comprehend and conveys the ideals and opinions of the author perfectly.
-It stays platform independent throughout the book which is a BIG plus.
-The first three chapters alone will already have you second guessing about your own security implementations.
-You can skip around in the book to suit your own needs.
-It is fairly up-to-date.
-It is an O'reilly published book Basically there is really nothing about this book that you can not like. It is vague enough for an end-user and in-depth enough for security administrators. All in all I truly believe that this is an absolute must if you operate a *nix based operating system that is connected to the internet.
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