Check Point Firewall-1 Administration Guide - Softcover

Goncalves, Marcus; Brown, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007134229X ISBN 13: 9780071342292

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

With this unique guide, you can find the most current and comprehensive information on Check Point's FireWall-1 - all in a single volume.
The authors clearly explain the underlying concepts of protection that all security professionals should know. Using a hands-on approach, the authors guide you through the complex process of designing, building, and maintaining firewalls using Check Point's FireWall-1.
Throughout the book, extensive case studies discuss the many security threats to corporate Intranet and Internet sites - and show you how to avoid them using FireWall-1. You'll also find an invaluable CD-ROM that contains an evaluation copy of Check Point's FireWall-1 product, so you can see the benefits of this great product for yourself.
Check Point FireWall-1 Administration Guide is ideal for administrators and professionals who need to install FireWall-1 for Windows and UNIX.

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Review

Check Point FireWall-1 is big and highly capable but hard for the uninitiated to figure out. Check Point FireWall-1 Administration Guide does a competent job of scratching the surface of this popular piece of security software. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered--any single volume would have to--but what's here is enough to help you get the software installed and initially configured in all standard situations.

Authors Marcus Goncalves and Steven Brown--Goncalves has a particularly strong reputation as a firewall guru--describe sound practices for formulating security policies, then implementing those policies as FireWall-1 rules. Coverage focuses on Windows NT installations of FireWall-1. Unix gets some attention, but practically all the screen shots show a Microsoft operating system.

The most interesting parts of this book have to do with how FireWall-1 identifies and reacts to specific kinds of attacks. For example, the authors explain how the FireWall-1 INSPECT engine, faced with attempts to overwhelm a protected machine with unresolved connection attempts (a SYN flood), can use SYNDefender Relay or SYNDefender Gateway to intercept or monitor requests and acknowledgments. They typically map packet exchanges with simple but effective transmission diagrams consisting of ASCII characters. The coverage of VPNs involving mobile users and their implementation with SecuRemote also is strong. --David Wall

Topics covered: Firewall rationales, FireWall-1 installation, rule sets, virtual private networks (VPNs), and how FireWall-1 behaves under specific kinds of attacks.

From the Back Cover

Your Indispensable Guide to Installing and Maintaining Check Point FireWall-1

Check Point Systems, the leader in security solutions and perimeter protection, has created the #1 firewall used in most corporate networks worldwide. If you are an engineer or network administrator, you know how difficult it is to find the facts you need to implement this new technology--and you don't have the time to search through manuals and documentation. With this unique guide, you can find the most current and comprehensive information on Check Point's FireWall-1--all in a single volume.

The authors clearly explain the underlying concepts of protection that all security professional should know. Using a hands-on approach, the authors guide you through the complex process of designing, building, and maintaining firewalls using Check Point's FireWall-1.

Check Point FireWall-1 Administration Guide covers three key aspects of this product:
*FireWall-1 Overview & Configuration, covering firewall technologies, Check Point's Stateful Inspection and FireWall-1 installation and configuration
* Fire Wall-1 Administration, discussing all the topics of a security policy, creating objects used in a security policy, some FireWall-1 advanced security features and Virtual Private Networking
*FireWall-1 Advanced Topics, including Check Point's OPSEC standard, fault tolerance, load balancing and advanced general firewall security topics

Throughout the book, extensive case studies discuss the many security threats to corporate Intranet and Internet sites--and show you how to avoid them using FireWall-1. You'll also find an invaluable CD_ROM that contains an evaluation copy of Check Points's FireWall-1 product, so you can see the benefits of this great product for yourself.

Check Point FireWall-1 Administration Guide is ideal for administrators and professionals who need to install FireWall-1 for Windows and UNIX. It is the single most up-to-date resource for the latest information on firewall security.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 007134229X
• ISBN 13: 9780071342292
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 464