Firewalls: Jumpstart for Network and Systems Administrators 1st Edition

Talks about the danger of losing data on floppy disks. Or setting up routing on Windows NT or Novell Netware (!!) Latest client operating system mentioned is Windows XP. In other words its OLD and OUT OF DATE. The author still trying to sell it for $50! What a rip off. And to top it off, its not that well written. Thank god I only 'rented' the kindle version and didn't buy it. Still a waste of money though. Did I mention, its a rip off?

I fell into the category of "I know what a router is but I hope I never have to set one up." Our routers were handled by another talented memeber of our team. When she left, I gave it shot using some manuals we had from cisco and some other informatin passed down from project to project. Completely lost, I decided to start from the beginning. This text was just the ticket to get me started!

Without security electronic communications hold little value of in competitive arena of business management and operations. Firewalls are one of the key building blocks of the digital future.Security professionals, application developers, along with IT and network staff in all types of organizations will eventually need to work with firewalls. This book provides an extensive analysis of firewall technologies that are available. Design issues and architectures are also expertly covered. But this book goes beyond theory and analysis to explain numerous implementation issues.To move through an IT career and especially to move into management positions, IT professionals need a well-rounded knowledge of secure computing and communications technology. It essential for IT professionals to keep up with a quickly changing world and this book provides the knowledge that is necessary to achieve professional growth and development.This book is written for people that need to cut through the confusion about firewalls and get down to adoption and deployment. The book starts with the basic concepts and takes readers the all of the necessary learning steps to enable them to effectively use firewalls.Michael Erbschloe, author and educator

Firewalls by Vacca and Ellis begins with what firewalls are and what they can accomplish as well as the limititations of these systems. The book progresses with chapters on installing, configuring, testing as well as maintaining your firewall system. This text uses extensive examples and case studies as teaching tools to develop the skills required by anyone responsible for establishing and maintaining firewall technology whether they work for a corporation, law enforcement or government.

I highly recommend "Firewalls" by John Vacca. I found the book to be extremely helpfully in understanding the configuration and maintenance of firewalls as well as a great reference for the different types of security infrastructures that can be implemented using the technologies available today. "Firewalls" is an excellent knowledge base that I would recommend as a must read for anyone in the computer security and system administration fields.

I am a computer security instructor by trade, and I constantly make reference to Mr. Vacca's books during ethical hacking, countermeasures, and digital forensics classes.This book is particularly helpful in that it is, for the most part, vendor neutral in approach. The most current trends and techniques for firewalling and filtering are covered, including deep content inspection, "stateful" application examination, and intrusion detection system integration. The inclusion of VPN technology and client integration is helpful, and makes mention of the most current trends in the VPN arena (STUN, NAT traversal, etc); Chapter 14 covers the internal network segment as opposed to perimeter security devices, and offers several tips for "defense in depth" layering strategies; Chapter 19 offers several key tips for firewall management from an enterprise perspective, a glaring omission from other firewall-related books.One of the great things about Vacca's work is his penchant for documenting references - any of the research materials he used or discovered during the book's development is included at the end of each chapter.

This book covers firewall implementation, configuration and maintenance with excellent references and examples. John Vacca starts with installation and setup and then moves into implementing and maintance. Along the way many real life experiences are used as examples. Before you start or before you do any updateing on your firewall be sure to read this book.

This book is an excellent resource for network and system administrators. Firewalls are increasingly important to safeguard company intranets as well as home computers from malicious hackers. This book emphasizes the need to review the firewall traffic logs and constantly audit the firewall performance. It reminds us all of the methods required to maintain a safe computer network.