Check Point Firewall-1 Administration Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 007134229X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book includes real world scenarios of corporate intranet/internet security threats and solutions, while the CD-ROM features tools and utilities.. This text provides instructions on installing, administering, and maintaining Check Point's FireWall 1 product
Coverage focuses on Windows NT installations of FireWall-1. Authors Marcus Goncalves and Steven Brown--Goncalves has a particularly strong reputation as a firewall guru--describe sound practices for formulating security policies, then implementing those policies as FireWall-1 rules. They typically map packet exchanges with simple but effective transmission diagrams consisting of ASCII characters. Check Point FireWall-1 Administration Guide does a competent job of scratching the surface of this popular piece of security software. . The most interesting parts of this book have to do with how FireWall-1 identifies and reacts to specific kinds of attacks. Unix gets some attention, but practically all the screen shots show a Microsoft operating system. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered--any single volume would have to--but what's here is enough to help you
"Just as bad as the Checkpoint manuals" according to A Customer. I'm a Network Security Engineer who's been working with Checkpoint for about Just as bad as the Checkpoint manuals I'm a Network Security Engineer who's been working with Checkpoint for about 3 years, and I ordered this book because I really wanted to master Checkpoint.The book is embarassing, I could have written a better book. There's little content other than the very basic tasks in Checkpoint, just . years, and I ordered this book because I really wanted to master Checkpoint.The book is embarassing, I could have written a better book. There's little content other than the very basic tasks in Checkpoint, just . "easy to read" according to J. Jarrett. I do agree with some of the other reviews here, it is all covered in the manuals that come with Firewall-1. But who had an easy time reading them? Who has time to swap back and forth through the manuals trying to figure something out? If you have the money buy it and use them both. Start wi. warning: this book is content free lawrie hanson we have built and maintained our company's firewalls for the past ten years and therefore have a reasonable understanding of how they are configured and what they do.we were in the position of replacing our existing firewall with one using checkpoint's firewall-1 product. having struggled w