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Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition
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Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition

by Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, D. Brent Chapman
June 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
894 pages
30h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

This book is a practical guide to building your own firewall. It provides step-by-step explanations of how to design and install a firewall at your site and how to configure Internet services such as electronic mail, FTP, the World Wide Web, and others to work with a firewall. Firewalls are complex, though, and we can’t boil everything down to simple rules. Too much depends on exactly what hardware, operating system, and networking you are using at your site, and what you want your users to be able to do and not do. We’ve tried to give you enough rules, examples, and resources here so you’ll be able to do the rest on your own.

What is a firewall, and what does it do for you? A firewall is a way to restrict access between the Internet and your internal network. You typically install a firewall at the point of maximum leverage, the point where your network connects to the Internet. The existence of a firewall at your site can greatly reduce the odds that outside attackers will penetrate your internal systems and networks. The firewall can also keep your own users from compromising your systems by sending dangerous information — unencrypted passwords and sensitive data — to the outside world.

The attacks on Internet-connected systems we are seeing today are more serious and more technically complex than those in the past. To keep these attacks from compromising our systems, we need all the help we can get. Firewalls are a highly effective way of protecting sites from these attacks. ...

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