Chapter 7. Networks, Firewalls, and More
THIS CHAPTER FOCUSES ON SECURING THE SYSTEM. If your systems use the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite for networking, network packets may travel along one or more of 65,000 virtual ports. On a network as diverse as the Internet, standard port numbers facilitate communication. Services you provide online may even advertise their information in some ways. Obscurity in port numbers and other advertised information may make take your system out of the line of fire of some black-hat hackers.
System security requires regulation of packets transmitted over the network. Some services that use TCP packets can be regulated with networking access control lists (ACLs) in a system ...
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