Skip to Main Content
Snow Leopard™ Server
book

Snow Leopard™ Server

by Daniel Eran Dilger
November 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
976 pages
22h 28m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Snow Leopard™ Server

Chapter 14. Firewall Service

In This Chapter

  • Introduction to firewalls

  • Planning

  • firewall services

  • Firewall setup and

  • configuration

  • Managing and

  • monitoring

  • firewall services

The firewall service in Mac OS X Server erects a checkpoint barrier to prevent unintended network communications from attacking the server and potentially other machines on the network to obtain private information, maliciously interrupt network services, or use network resources for undesirable purposes.

Apart from the firewall, Snow Leopard Server incorporates a variety of security practices to harden the software from external attacks. Most modern network services require authentication before allowing any communications that could expose any vulnerabilities; and those that don't, such as publicly accessible web services, greatly limit external interaction to specific interfaces that behave in known ways.

Still, the best way to defend against external attacks is to proactively stop them before they can gain access to the network or server. This is the role of the firewall service.

Smaller groups operating Snow Leopard Server in a standard or workgroup configuration are likely to already have some firewall protection in place, supplied either by an appliance router, such as an AirPort base station, or by the organization's firewall installed at the router on the boundary of the public Internet.

Server Preferences enables users to remotely set up firewall services in the AirPort base station or, alternatively, to configure ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™ Server For Dummies®

Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™ Server For Dummies®

John Rizzo
Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory® Resource Kit

Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory® Resource Kit

Conan Kezema Stan Riemer Mike Mulcare, Byron Wright, and Microsoft Active Directory

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470521311Purchase book