Internet Service Security Example

This example presents the fictitious simple Internet service of Mydomain.com, a new dot-com startup selling CDs and videos online. Mydomain.com employs the full range of servers covered throughout this chapter, including Web servers, FTP servers, Internet e-mail servers, DNS servers, and back-end servers.

This example includes before and after designs. The before design uses a standard public-facing model, and the after design implements security elements based around a Cisco Secure PIX Firewall. The example identifies the common attacks that can be carried out and the way that the proposed secure solution will deal with these attacks.

The network is hosted at an Internet service provider (ISP) and is connected ...

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