Cisco ASA, PIX and FWSM Firewall Handbook, Second Edition

  • 14h 31m
  • David Hucaby
  • Cisco Press
  • 2008

Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook, Second Edition, is a guide for the most commonly implemented features of the popular Cisco firewall security solutions. Fully updated to cover the latest firewall releases, this book helps you to quickly and easily configure, integrate, and manage the entire suite of Cisco firewall products, including ASA, PIX, and the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM).

Organized by families of features, this book helps you get up to speed quickly and efficiently on topics such as file management, building connectivity, controlling access, firewall management, increasing availability with failover, load balancing, logging, and verifying operation.

Sections are marked by shaded tabs for quick reference, and information on each feature is presented in a concise format, with background, configuration, and example components.

Whether you are looking for an introduction to the latest ASA, PIX, and FWSM devices or a complete reference for making the most out of your Cisco firewall deployments, Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Firewall Handbook, Second Edition, helps you achieve maximum protection of your network resources.

About the Author

David Hucaby, CCIE No. 4594, is a lead network engineer for the University of Kentucky, where he works with health-care networks based on the Cisco Catalyst, ASA, FWSM, and VPN product lines. He was one of the beta reviewers of the ASA 8.0 operating system software.

In this Book

  • Firewall Overview
  • Configuration Fundamentals
  • Building Connectivity
  • Firewall Management
  • Managing Firewall Users
  • Controlling Access Through the Firewall
  • Inspecting Traffic
  • Increasing Firewall Availability with Failover
  • Firewall Load Balancing
  • Firewall Logging
  • Verifying Firewall Operation
  • ASA Modules
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