Your one-stop Cisco PIX Firewalls resource

Develop a well-thought-out security solution that can easily integrate with your current network, is flexible enough to accommodate changes in your network, and is still easy to monitor and maintain. Author Richard Deal delivers pertinent, up-to-date information on installing and maintaining the Cisco PIX Firewall and on mastering the Cisco PIX Firewall security certification. Eliminate security risks whether youre working at a home desktop or protecting an enterprise-class corporation. Learn to maximize performance and reliability. Plus, take advantage of PIX management features and the Virtual Private Networks--all with the help of this professional resource.

• Meet security needs without impairing a companys business plan or goals
  
• Defend your network against reconnaissance, denial-of-service, and access attacks
  
• Understand the adaptive security algorithm, PIX Device Manager, and other Cisco security components
  
• Support IPSec and Virtual Private Network services
  
• Deploy security policies uniformly across all devices in your network
  
• Discover simple installation and configuration techniques to minimize start-up investment
  
• Take into account departmental needs and corporate organization
  
• Control inbound and outbound traffic through connection table entries
  
• Maintain secure perimeters by working with source and destination addresses, TCP sequence and port numbers, and TCP flags
  

Contents           

   Part I: Introduction to Firewalls and Cisco Hardware Solutions
    1: Firewall Basics
    2: PIX Firewall Family

   Part II: PIX Setup and Traffic Filtering
    3: The PIX Command-Line Interface and Basic Configuration
    4: Traffic Flow Through the PIX and Address Translation
    5: Filtering Traffic with Outbound Filters and Access Lists

   Part III: Advanced PIX Features
    6: Web Traffic Filtering
    7: Protocol Fixup Feature
    8: Attack Guards, IDS Features, and Spoofing Protection

   Part IV: PIX Management
    9: PIX Device Manager
    10: SNMP and Logging
    11: Centralizing Security
    12: PIX Failover
    13: Password Recovery Procedure
    14: Upgrading Your PIX Firewall
    15: SOHO Environments: DHCP and PPPoE

   Part V: VPNs and the PIX Firewall
    16: IPSec Overview
    17: IPSec Configuration