Firewall Technology Encyclopedia

Author: Strassberg
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book covers novel and comprehensive content, with clear explanations and descriptions of basic knowledge, closely integrated with practical products, and extremely strong practicality. It is suitable for network security administrators, engineers, and technicians, as well as a broad readership interested in firewalls as a reference. The book introduces installation steps, key configuration options, and important maintenance tasks for seven popular firewall product series currently on the market. It also explains the principles of network fundamentals, supported network layout designs, architectures, and the implementation of various advanced features. The content of this book includes: network fundamentals of firewalls, network design considerations, firewall architecture, advanced features, and an analysis of firewall attacks; the book focuses on providing background introductions, functional descriptions, installation, configuration, and management knowledge for seven different firewall product series from vendors such as CheckPoint Firewall-14.1 and NG, Cisco PIX, Linux iptables, Microsoft ISA Server, NetScreen, SonicWall, and Symantec.