Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance
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Identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks Understand the evolution of security technologies that make up the unified ASA device and how to install the ASA hardware Examine firewall solutions including netwo… More >>
Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance
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Computer security would be really easy IF. If the computer were in a room by itself, if it wasn’t connected to a communications line, and if no one ever brought in a floppy disk or other media. Unfortunately that’s not the real world.
In the real world, we set up web servers because we want the outside world to come to them and get information, send us credit card information and more. Now, all of a sudden you have a different set of problems, how to let in all the people you want, and make it easy for them to do what they need, but keep out the bad guys who have other motives.
The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance or ASA is a single integrated box that provides about as close to perfect security as can be had in today’s world. Being ‘Adaptive’ means that the system can change to provide security against new forms of attack. It also means that the system is not the simplest thing in the world to set up, nor can it simply be installed and then ignored forever.
This book begins with a general introduction to Network Security and what the bad guys are doing. It then discusses the various major functions of the ASA: Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System, and finally securing your Virtual Private Network.
Both of the authors are current Cisco employees with a great deal of experience in security.
Rating: 5 / 5
What a waste of time it was reading this book. If you are not very familiar with FW/IPS or VPN then this may be helpful, but if you have been working with this technology and Cisco’s products that address these technologies (ASA, PIX, IPS, VPN3k) then please don’t refer to this joke. Go online to cisco.com and do the research. Sometimes it felt as if whitepapers were copied and pasted.
Very dissapointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book helped me a lot. I recently deployed over 250 ASAs and was running into a lot of problems with the IPS SSM and VPN features. I got most of my answers from this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book makes it very easy to learn how to program the ASA to do what you need.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book has been very helpful for me. The only issue that I ran into was that the VPN section was a little outdated.
Rating: 4 / 5