Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, 2/e

The best-selling first edition of Firewalls and Internet Security became the bible of Internet security by showing readers how to think about threats and solutions. The completely updated and expanded second edition defines the security problems students face in today's Internet, identifies the weaknesses of the most popular security technologies, and illustrates the ins and outs of deploying an effective firewall. Students learn how to plan and execute a security strategy that allows easy access to Internet services while defeating even the wiliest of hackers. Written by well-known senior researchers at AT&T Bell Labs, Lumeta, and Johns Hopkins University the students will benefit from the actual, real-world experiences of the authors maintaining, improving, and redesigning AT&T's Internet gateway.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.

I. GETTING STARTED.

  1. Introduction.
  2. A Security Review of Protocols: Lower Layers.
  3. Security Review: The Upper Layers.
  4. The Web: Threat or Menace?

II. THE THREATS.

  5. Classes of Attacks.
  6. The Hacker's Workbench, and Other Munitions.

III. SAFER TOOLS AND SERVICES.

  7. Authentication.
  8. Using Some Tools and Services.

IV. FIREWALLS AND VPNS.

  9. Kinds of Firewalls.
 10. Filtering Services.
 11. Firewall Engineering.
 12. Tunneling and VPNs.
 13. Network Layout.
 14. Safe Hosts in a Hostile Environment.
 15. Intrusion Detection.

VI. LESSONS LEARNED.

16. Une Soirie avec Berferd.
17. The Taking of Clark.
18. Secure Communications over Insecure Networks.
19. Where Do We Go from Here?

A. An Introduction to Cryptography.
B. Keeping up.
Bibliography.
List of Bombs.
List of Acronyms