Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance, 2nd Edition
- By Jazib Frahim, Omar Santos.
- Published by Cisco Press.
- Series: Networking Technology: Security.
- Published: Dec 29, 2009
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 7-3/8 X 9-1/8
- Pages: 1152
- Edition: 2nd
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- ISBN-10: 1-58705-819-7
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-819-6
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- ISBN-10: 1-58714-097-7
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58714-097-6
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For organizations of all sizes, the Cisco ASA product family offers powerful new tools for maximizing network security. Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance, Second Edition, is Cisco's authoritative practitioner's guide to planning, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting security with Cisco ASA. Written by two leading Cisco security experts, this book presents each Cisco ASA solution in depth, offering comprehensive sample configurations, proven troubleshooting methodologies, and debugging examples. Readers will learn about the Cisco ASA Firewall solution and capabilities; secure configuration and troubleshooting of site-to-site and remote access VPNs; Intrusion Prevention System features built into Cisco ASA's Advanced Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM); and Anti-X features in the ASA Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM). This new edition has been updated with detailed information on the latest ASA models and features.
- Everything network professionals need to know to identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks with Cisco ASA
- Includes detailed configuration examples, with screenshots and command line references
- Covers the ASA 8.2 release
- Presents complete troubleshooting methodologies and architectural references
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Resource for Cisco ASA admins and for CCIE Security Candidates, By
This review is from: Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is written by Omar Santos and Jazib Frahim and both of them are leading Security engineers from Cisco Systems. Hence you are in extremely capable hands and the book is worth every penny. Having said that, the book is huge (over 1000 pages) and it may not be feasible to read it cover to cover but it is filled with excellent information. It is comprised of 20 chapters emphasizing five key technology areas including Cisco ASA product overview and firewall portfolio, Firewall technology, IPS, Content Security (URL Filtering, Anti-X etc) and VPNs.The book is filled with configuration examples for both CLI and ASDM GUI. It covers ASA 8.2 code and hence the content is extremely current, fresh and relevant. The book explains firewall theory, implementation, tuning and troubleshooting in great detail, making it an excellent resource for Cisco ASA administrators and CCIE Security candidates as the lab test ASA firewall in great detail. I bought this book to... Read more
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
The book is a well written introduction for the Cisco ASA 5500 series. Wish the Index was more thorough, and some sections you have to skip around to complete. This later complain though may in part be because this book covers the ASA IOS versions 8.2 and before, and some major changes came with version 8.3. (At the time of this review, the current version is 8.4.) This does not matter much for some of the basic setup operations, such as interface & logging setup, but NAT/PAT and ACE/ACL setup has changed dramatically. Since those are two fundamental areas of firewall setup, what would otherwise be 4 or 5 star book, drops to a 2 or 3 star review, especially considering that most organizations are not going to want to run old versions of IOS on their security devices.There is some documentation on the updated version available online, but especially when it comes to examples, I think they are not real written. Would be happy to purchase an updated copy of this book to add... Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Excellent resource for ASA management,
This review is from: Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
The sheer weight of this book intimidates you right out of the box! However, once you open it up and start reading, you realize that you have an excellent reference for the Cisco ASA product. From the beginning where the book introduces you to the overall solution to where it spends a chapter on each of the components mentioned in the title (even better- some have much more in-depth coverage) to the end where an entire section is dedicated to configuring the Virtual Private Networks, this book provides the necessary information to securely set up and use this important appliance.I liked many aspects of this book, but when I initially cracked it open and saw the product overview alone, I knew that this was the type of book that I needed if I wanted to maintain this type of solution. Why? Well, this particular section walked you through the different models of the ASA product line, complete with pictures of each and diagrams of where and what all the different features... Read more |
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Firewall Technologies
2. Product Overview
3. System Maintenance
4. ASA Network Access Control and Use
5. ASA IP Routing
6. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Services
7. ASA Application Inspection (Fixup protocols)
8. Security Contexts
9. Transparent Firewall Feature (Layer 2 Firewall)
10. Failover and Redundancy
11. Quality of Service (QoS)
12. Introduction to Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Technologies
13. Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Integration
14. Configuring and Troubleshooting IPS
15. Tuning and Monitoring IPS
16. Introduction to Anti-X
17. Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM) Integration
18. Configuring and Troubleshooting Anti-X Services
19. Introduction to VPN
20. Site-to-site IPSec VPNs
21. IPSec Remote Access VPNs
22. Configuring and Troubleshooting Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
23. Clientless Remote Access SSL VPN
24. Client-based Remote Access SSL VPN
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