Book description
"When it comes to security products and
technologies, experience is far and away the best teacher. PhoneBoy
has been installing, running, and supporting Check Point FireWall-1
for years, and his experience shows in this book. Save yourself the
pain of learning from your own mistakes--let PhoneBoy show you the
right way to manage your FireWall-1 NG infrastructure."
--Tina Bird, Computer Security Officer, Stanford University
"Dameon has taken his original definitive guide
and updated it thoroughly for NG. No other book is informed by his
depth of experience with Check Point. Accept no
substitutes!"
--Matthew Gast, author of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive
Guide
"PhoneBoy is the de facto expert on this
product, and people have been clamoring for an NG book from him
since he published the first one. No one can compete with
him."
--Valerie M. Leveille, Professional Educator
"Dameon is the foremost authority on
FireWall-1. He has the knowledge to give details of FireWall-1
functionality that no other reference on this topic can."
--Paul Keser, Senior Network Security Engineer, Raytheon ITSS/NASA
Ames Research Center
"This book is the Swiss army knife solution for
Check Point FireWall-1 NG."
--Thomas Warfield, TNT-OK.com
Now there's a definitive insider's guide to planning, installing, configuring, and maintaining the newest version of the world's #1 firewall: Check Point™ FireWall-1® Next Generation™. Leading Check Point support authority Dameon Welch-Abernathy (a.k.a. PhoneBoy) offers exclusive hands-on tips, techniques, checklists, and detailed sample configurations you can use right now to improve reliability, efficiency, and manageability in your Check Point environment.
The author's previous Check Point FireWall-1 guide became an instant bestseller, earning the praise of security professionals worldwide. This new book has been thoroughly revamped to reflect Check Point FireWall-1 NG's powerful new features, and it includes even more expert solutions from PhoneBoy's FireWall-1 FAQ, the Web's #1 independent Check Point support site. Whether you're a security/network architect, administrator, or manager, you'll find it indispensable.
Whether you're running FireWall-1 NG on UNIX or Windows platforms, this book brings together expert guidance for virtually every challenge you'll face: building your rulebase, logging and alerting, remote management, user authentication, inbound/outbound content restriction, managing NAT environments, building site-to-site VPNs with SecuRemote, even INSPECT programming. Welch-Abernathy also covers high availability in detail, identifying proven solutions for the challenges of implementing multiple firewalls in parallel.
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Preface
- Introduction to Firewalls
- Planning Your FireWall-1 Installation
- Installing FireWall-1
- Building Your Rulebase
- Logging and Alerting
- Common Issues
- Remote Management
-
User Authentication
- Passwords
- How Users Authenticate
- Setting Up Authentication
- Setting Up User Authentication
- Setting Up Session Authentication
- Setting Up Client Authentication
- Integrating External Authentication Servers
- Clientless VPN
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting Authentication Problems
- Summary
- Sample Configurations
- Content Security
- Network Address Translation
- Site-to-Site VPN
-
SecuRemote and SecureClient
- Introduction to SecuRemote and SecureClient
- A Word about Licensing
- Configuring SecuRemote on FireWall-1
- Office Mode
- Microsoft L2TP Clients
- High-Availability and Multiple Entry Point Configurations
- Microsoft Networking and SecureClient
- SecureClient Packaging Tool
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting
- Summary
- Sample Configurations
- High Availability
- INSPECT
- Securing Your Bastion Host
- Sample Acceptable Usage Policy
- firewall-1.conf File for Use with OpenLDAP v1
- firewall-1.schema File for Use with OpenLDAP v2
- Performance Tuning
- Sample defaultfilter.pf File
- Other Resources
- Further Reading
Product information
- Title: Essential Check Point™ FireWall-1® NG: An Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2004
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 0321180615
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