Firewalls 24seven

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Summary: Finally a book for the administrator!
Review: Firewalls 24seven is a well thought out and direct to the point book. No frills, packed with information that every System Adminstrator needs to know. I direct the day to day operations of a large military division of IT personnel and I've made this book required reading.

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Summary: Finally a book for the administrator!
Review: Firewalls 24seven is a well thought out and direct to the point book. No frills, packed with information that every System Adminstrator needs to know. I direct the day to day operations of a large military division of IT personnel and I've made this book required reading.

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Summary: Not what I thought it would be
Review: I bought this hoping to get a decent refrence on firewalls, so far I have opened it 8 or 9 times to review a topic and find that in every case there is a knock of Microsoft products or stellar talk on linux, this and the fact that the authors listed are MCSE, I thought this would be different. I am very disapointed to have spent money on this just to have this tired argument thrown at me yet again. The book may have some nice content, I have yet to find much because I get pretty disgusted when the 1st things written are always a view point on this issue, if I wanted more of this crap I can get that from a blog for free, and frankly it is growing old.

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Summary: One of the best for people with little security background
Review: I'm an admin. and needed to get up to speed on firewalls fast. This is a great introductory book. Follow this up with "Building internet firewalls" by Zwicky, (make sure to get the second edition). Couple that with some work and you will know as much about firewalls as any expert.

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Summary: One of the best for people with little security background
Review: I'm an admin. and needed to get up to speed on firewalls fast. This is a great introductory book. Follow this up with "Building internet firewalls" by Zwicky, (make sure to get the second edition). Couple that with some work and you will know as much about firewalls as any expert.

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Summary: Firewalls o Seguridad, Intrusion y Recuperacion?
Review: Primero que nada el libro no es malo, es bueno, pero creo que el titulo no hace justa referencia al contenido. Compre este libro con la idea de adquirir una herramienta oriendada al desarrollo y configuracion de firewalls, pero me encontre con un buen tratado general sobre seguridad, un analisis sobre diferentes sistemas y su seguridad, problemas con hackers pero no puede hallar en ningun lado como cuales son las reglas de filtraje para un servidor DNS o SMTP.
Asi que estimado amigo, este es mi consejo para ti. Este no es un libro tecnico profundo y concreto sobre configuracion de firewalls, es un libro mas bien general sobre seguridad en internet, analiza numerosos productos, analiza numerosos sistemas operativos y brinda algunas herramientas de proteccion sobre los sistemas operativos descritos, menciona normas de seguridad y da algunos parametros sobre recuperacion de sistemas comprometidos.
Deseas tener en tus manos un fascinante libro que te abra los ojos a el mundo de la seguridad en Internet? este es el libro que buscas. Deseas tener en tus manos una herramienta de configuracion de un verdadero firewall?, Uhmm !, mejor compra Building Internet Firewalls.
Espero que mi consejo te sirva. Saludos.
Piyux.

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Summary: facile market survey but little else
Review: This book contains useful market-savvy information surveying the technology offered by various firewall vendors. Products are compared, screen shots are produced, pricing information is presented, and partially correct information about market posture and perception is offered. However, the book lacks any in-depth technical treatment. The authors should spend less time telling us how brilliant they are and bragging in sidebars about this client and that client. Then again, since the authors slapped the MCSE credential on the book jacket but said nothing about meaningful academic achievements, I guess I got what I paid for.

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Summary: Exellent book for System admins concenred about security
Review: This book does not only teach you about firewalls - it also teaches you the details of network security, hackers etc.. It helps you set up your own firewall from really small (DOS!) to huge networks. It has excellent case studies where the author gives accounts of his own real life experiences. It shows you how to set up and use the most popular firewalls around, and gives you excellent security tips. This book is not about theory, but it is about real life. If you are a systems admin who is concenerned about secuirty but do not know where to start from, then buy this book. NOW!. Jeremy Pullicino Malta