Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology)

Author - Greg Abelar ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Cisco Press was reviewed on 11-Dec-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology) by Cisco Press. The book is well written - a good focus on the ASDM. I would like to say the information is well compacted into 188 pages but I cannot. Including the index and table of contents it barely sqeaks by with 160 pages. A bit more command-line would have certainly filled the missing 28 pages. I still like the way the content was presented; 4 stars.¤

2) Paperback Book Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology) by Cisco Press. This book ´Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls´ is absolutely awesome, I wish I could give it siz stars. The sections that VERY CLEARLY explian problems that you can run into on the internet and the sections on how to deploy a new ASA device are fantastic. The Step-by-step, saved me about $2,500 - $3,000 dollars because I didn´t have to hire a consultant to do the installation for me. I looked at the ASA Handbook as suggested by another reviewer, although that book is pretty good, I found this book to be much more simple and to the point.
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3) Paperback Book Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology) by Cisco Press. Sadly, this think book is all but useless for anything beyond a very standard configuration of Cisco´s (new) ASA devices.

It hardly provided more information than what you get with the Quickstart guide that´s included with the appliance itself. That means some simple scenarios with an Internet connection, a DMZ and a main LAN, with a bit of NAT thrown in.

Half the book is generics, such as the importance of protecting your network and other such items. No explanation of the how´s and why´s. You´re better off downloading the technical documents and white papers off Cisco´s website. Or even poring over the PIX/ASA command line guide, even if you intend to use ASDM.

A much better choice is the "Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook".¤

4) Paperback Book Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology) by Cisco Press. Oh if life were only easier. The web must be a lot like the old west was rumored to be. Except that there doesn´t even appear to be a sheriff anywhere around. All of us have to build our own little forts for protection against the bad guys. One of the best forts you can build uses the Cisco ASA/PIX Security Appliance.

You can, of course, set up the equipment without anything but the manual. But this book goes into a lot more background that is very nice to know. It starts with why they might want into your network. (I couldn´t imagine why anyone would want into mine until they started attacking to use my equipment for re-mailing and bandwidth.) It then goes into they types of attacks that might be used against you.

It´s probably impossible to build a totally secure system unless it isn´t connected to the outside world in any way at all. But when your users want things like e-mail, web access and more, you´ve got to do something. The Cisco approach at least makes it very difficult for all but the most determined bad buy to get into your system.

The author has been working on the Cisco approach to security since 1996, he understands it pretty well and has a good writing style to make it understandable to you. Highly Recommended!¤

5) Paperback Book Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology) by Cisco Press. I´m a system admin in a medium size company, 800 epmloyees in 4 locations across the US. Our Security Admin position was eliminated because of budget considerations. I was forced into the role (opportunity) without any training and have been learning as I go. I needed to deploy firewall in all four locations so I bought this book- Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls by Greg Abelar. It was a life saver. Not only was it comprehensive in it´s deployment instructions but it did such a great job of explaining internet threats and why deploying these devices are so important. It also made me aware of Host Intrusion Prevention, I am going to go out and evaluate CSA.

I would recommend this book to anyone deploying ASA or anyone who would just like to understand security, why it is neccessary, what ASA will do for you and most of all how it fits into the concept of defense in depth.¤

6) Paperback Book Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls (Networking Technology) by Cisco Press.

Protect critical data and maintain uptime with Cisco ASDM and Cisco Security Agent 

• Understand how attacks can impact your business and the different ways attacks can occur
• Learn about the defense-in-depth model for deploying firewall and host protection
• Examine navigation methods and features of Cisco ASDM
• Set up Cisco ASA, PIX Firewall, and ASDM hardware and software
• Use the Cisco ASDM startup wizard to safely connect your network to the Internet and securely add public devices such as mail and web servers to your network
• Authenticate firewall users and users of public web servers
• Filter traffic and protect your network from perimeter attacks
• Deploy Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to provide more granular traffic inspection and proactive threat response
• Stop attacks launched at the desktop by deploying Cisco Security Agent
• Extend the defense-in-depth model to remote users through IPSec virtual private networks (VPN)
• Enhance your security posture through proper security management
• Understand the advanced features available in the Cisco PIX version 7 operating system
• Recover from software failure with Cisco PIX version 7

Many people view security as a “black-box-voodoo” technology that is very sophisticated and intimidating. While that might have been true a few years ago, vendors have been successful in reducing the complexity and bringing security to a point where almost anyone with a good understanding of technology can deploy network security.

Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls is an extension of the work to simplify security deployment. This easy-to-use guide helps you craft and deploy a defense-in-depth solution featuring the newly released Cisco® ASA and PIX® version 7 as well as Cisco Security Agent host intrusion prevention software. The book simplifies configuration and management of these powerful security devices by discussing how to use Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM), which provides security management and monitoring services through an intuitive GUI with integrated online help and intelligent wizards to simplify setup and ongoing management. In addition, informative, real-time, and historical reports provide critical insight into usage trends, performance baselines, and security events. Complete with real-world security design and implementation advice, this book contains everything you need to know to deploy the latest security technology in your network.

Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls provides you with complete step-by-step processes for using Cisco ASDM in conjunction with Cisco Security Agent to ensure that your security posture is strong enough to stand up against any network or host attack whether sourced from the Internet or from inside your own network.

"Firewalls are a critical part of any integrated network security strategy, and books such as this will help raise awareness of both the threats inherent in today’s open, heterogeneous internetworking environments and the solutions that can be applied to make the Internet a safer place."

—Martin E. Hellman, professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering,

Stanford University and co-inventor of public key cryptography

This security book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology Series. Security titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals secure critical data and resources, prevent and mitigate network attacks, and build end-to-end self-defending networks. 

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