num_pages: 896
description: In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks--and the need to protect both business and personal data--have never been greater. We've updated Building Internet Firewalls to address these newer risks. What kinds of security threats does the Internet pose? Some like password attacks and the exploiting of known security holes have been around since the early days of networking. And others like the distributed denial of service attacks that crippled Yahoo E-Bay and other major e-commerce sites in early 2000 are in current headlines. Firewalls critical components of today's computer networks effectively protect a system from most Internet security threats. They keep damage on one part of the network--such as eavesdropping a worm program or file damage--from spreading to the rest of the network. Without firewalls network security problems can rage out of control dragging more and more systems down. Like the bestselling and highly respected first edition Building Internet Firewalls 2nd Edition is a practical and detailed step-by-step guide to designing and installing firewalls and configuring Internet services to work with a firewall. Much expanded to include Linux and Windows coverage the second edition The book's complete list of resources includes the location of many publicly available firewall construction tools.
language: English
title: Building Internet Firewalls: Internet and Web Security
publisher: O'Reilly Media