Building Internet Firewalls

Amazon.com

Simply put, a firewall is a way to restrict access between the Internet and your company's internal network. It enables you to get out to the Net while keeping unauthorized people from breaking into your systems. This is a solid, definitive text for building Internet firewalls that every system administrator who is connecting to the Net should own. Written in down-to-earth yet detailed style, you're guided through the entire process of designing, building and maintaining firewalls. The preface gives the best reason for using this book to build firewalls: "In any society, a small percentage of people are malicious." Indeed./p>

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The best firewall book around, but lacking re: policy design

_Building Internet Firewalls_ is a great reference if you are looking for physical configuration recommendations (how to connect stuff) or protocol packet filtering characteristics (lots of great detail there), but it does not describe firewall policy design or management in any detail (and I'm not aware of a firewall book that does). This could use a few more "real world" examples of filter policies (not just physical architecture), perhaps even a chapter dedicated to each of a home network, a small-to-medium-size business (with perhaps a more complicated and rigorous policy), and a large enterprise (with multiple firewalls and a complex policy).

Firewall Book Review

I think this is one of the best firewall books on the market. It is written in language that is easy to understand and has a lot of nice diagrams.