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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 network access control, IP routing, AAA, application inspection, virtual firewalls, transparent (Layer 2) firewalls, failover and redundancy, and QoS
• Evaluate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions including IPS integration and Adaptive Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM) configuration
• Deploy VPN solutions including site-to-site IPsec VPNs, remote- access VPNs, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Learn to manage firewall, IPS, and VPN solutions with Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM)

Achieving maximum network security is a challenge for most organizations. Cisco® ASA, a new unified security device that combines firewall, network antivirus, intrusion prevention, and virtual private network (VPN) capabilities, provides proactive threat defense that stops attacks before they spread through the network.

This new family of adaptive security appliances also controls network activity and application traffic and delivers flexible VPN connectivity. The result is a powerful multifunction network security device that provides the security breadth and depth for protecting your entire network, while reducing the high deployment and operations costs and complexities associated with managing multiple point products.

Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance is a practitioner's guide to planning, deploying, and troubleshooting a comprehensive security plan with Cisco ASA. The book provides valuable insight and deployment examples and demonstrates how adaptive identification and mitigation services on Cisco ASA provide a sophisticated security solution for both large and small network environments.

The book contains many useful sample configurations, proven design scenarios, and discussions of debugs that help you understand how to get the most out of Cisco ASA in your own network.

"I have found this book really highlights the practical aspects needed for building real-world security. It offers the insider's guidance needed to plan, implement, configure, and troubleshoot the Cisco ASA in customer environments and demonstrates the potential and power of Self-Defending Networks."

-- Jayshree Ullal, Sr. Vice President, Security Technologies Group, Cisco Systems® 

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword  

Introduction    

Part I Product Overview

Chapter 1 Introduction to Network Security

Chapter 2 Product History

Chapter 3 Hardware Overview

Part II Firewall Solution

Chapter 4 Initial Setup and System Maintenance

Chapter 5 Network Access Control

Chapter 6 IP Routing

Chapter 7 Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)

Chapter 8 Application Inspection

Chapter 9 Security Contexts

Chapter 10 Transparent Firewalls

Chapter 11 Failover and Redundancy

Chapter 12 Quality of Service

Part III Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Solution

Chapter 13 Intrusion Prevention System Integration

Chapter 14 Configuring and Troubleshooting Cisco IPS Software via CLI

Part IV Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solution

Chapter 15 Site-to-Site IPSec VPNs

Chapter 16 Remote Access VPN

Chapter 17 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Part V Adaptive Security Device‡Manager

Chapter 18 Introduction to ASDM

Chapter 19 Firewall Management Using ASDM

Chapter 20 IPS Management Using ASDM

Chapter 21 VPN Management Using ASDM

Chapter 22 Case Studies

Index

About the Authors

Omar Santos is a senior engineer in the Security and VPN Solutions TAC Group at Cisco. He has more than 10 years of experience in secure data communications and has worked in complex implementations with the U.S. Marine Corps and DoD. He has written many Cisco online technical documents and configuration guidelines and delivered numerous technical presenations.

Jazib Frahim, CCIE No. 5459 (Routing and Switching, Security), is a technical leader in the Security and VPN Solutions Group of the Technical Assistance Center at Cisco Systems. He has written numerous Cisco online documentations and participated as an active member on the Cisco online forum, NetPro.

Nov 7, 2005     
Outstanding book!!!!
I bought this book and answered questions that I had for over 2 months by just glancing at the content. I am about 50% done with the book and it is already worth the $70.00 I paid (or much more)...

Nov 4, 2005     Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP
Great book on the Cisco ASA
Cisco ASA : All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (Paperback) by Omar Santos, Jazib Frahim ISBN: 1587052091 Lately there is a fashion to say that now the network layer has been secured and so application security rules and that is what we need to worry about. Nothing can be further from the truth, imagine if a VPN implementation is not working as desired is it possible to still have a secure application layer, I think not. That is why they are called layers as they work in perfect harmony with each other. The book on Cisco ASA provides a very good understanding of the Adaptive behaviour of the next generation of cisco products which do the work of detection, prevention and combatting network threats. The book explains in a very lucid way to implement and configure a complex device which handles the work of a virus scanner, content filter, firewall and VPN. Through various confguration examples and designs the book explains the complex task of troubleshooting and that itself is worth the price of the book. The tips on how to use the various debug commands to fine tune the device are invaluable and a must for any one attempting to tame this beast. The coauthor Jazib Frahim, CCIE is a senior network security engineer in the Worldwide Security Services Practice of Advanced Services for Network Security at Cisco. The coauthor Omar Santos is a senior network security engineer in the Worldwide Security Services Practice of Advanced Services for Network Security at Cisco. I give this book 5 stars on a scale of 5, 5 being the highest. I strongly recommend this book. Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP

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