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Amazon.com Review
With more and more small-office and home computers being left connected to the Internet at all times, the owners of those machines are being faced with problems that used to confront only big operations. The authors of Firewalls for Dummies spread the message: everyone with a cable modem, data satellite dish, or DSL connection needs a firewall now. Thankfully, though, these guys go beyond merely showing how to set up turnkey personal firewall products--too many Dummies books explain the obvious and the generally intuitive--and reveal how to set up the sorts of firewalls that protect sizable networks. By understanding these techniques, small operators can plan for growth and improve their level of protection. What's more, this book provides a serious explanation of corporate firewall products and techniques that's appropriate for people who build and maintain big systems. The authors generally steer away from showing how to configure specific firewall products, though a few of the biggies--Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, BlackICE, ZoneAlarm, and Check Point FireWall-1--get comparative overview coverage. Mostly, they favor more general firewall configuration strategies and techniques. These they explain with a lot of prose, a fair number of conceptual diagrams, and tables that sum up permission rules. This is a worthwhile read. --David Wall Topics covered: Firewalls and the ways they can be deployed to prevent unauthorized access to computers and networks without interfering with the protected users' ability to get out to the Internet. A summary of networking fundamentals as they apply to firewalls is followed by coverage of network address translation (NAT), demilitarized zones (DMZs) as created by multiple or even single computers, and filtering policies.
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Customer Reviews:
• A Decent Introduction.
05 December, 2007
I picked this up for a curiosity check for some people that are getting interested in the security world.
As with the Dummies line, this book is meant as an introduction to the concept of a firewall.
If you ever asked "What's a firewall" then this book is for you. If you are looking for specific configurations or what to do when you are under attack, you will not like this book.
I gave it high marks because it discusses many concepts such as caching, stateful inspection, load balancing, protocols, etc. However, it does not go heavily into the technical which could make a non-IT person go comatose.
There are some discussion of attacks such as Denial of Service, Trojans, etc. but they are rather basic in nature. Again not a book for the advanced.
There is a decent discussion on policies and a reasonable discussion on NAT, that should give the inexperienced a good idea of these areas.
There are some discussions on deployment which the book might have been trying to reach the corporate environment. However, the value maybe only for managers who would not be involved with the firewall or they simply could have been left out. The book mainly feels for the small networks and the home user and probably would not care about three pronged firewalls.
The chapter on Linux firewalls talking about iptables and ipchains felt like it was an addon due to the rise of Linux. Having said that; it still was a decent introduction. It just felt out of place.
The chapters on Zonealarm, BlackIce, Norton, ISA, and Checkpoint are useful to a degree. They do discuss the products and they go into setup. However, you will probably read the information parts but probably will end up skipping the configuration sections.
The last two chapters are useful as they give you websites for 10 tools(though a couple have changed) and sites to find information about Firewalls and security groups.
Overall, it's a decent book for the beginner. Avoidable for the professional.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Contains A Publishing Error
21 September, 2008
I would rate the book higher if the book were complete. The 2nd edition text is missing content from chapters 10 and 13; and chapters 11 and 12 are entirely missing. The missing text would be between pages 177 and 224. The publisher has mistakenly included the text from another Dummies title. A reader review from June 2008 appears to indicate no problems before this date. I purchased my text in September 2008. I have notified the publisher of the problem and done an internet search to determine if others have reported this problem. There is a url-link with the correct text but will not publish the link here because it may be a pirated copy online. Do your own search to find the corrections. I hope the publisher will provide the corrections on-line using the Dummies.com website.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Good Start For Industry Basics.
28 September, 2003
I would have titled this "And if you want to know about Space Exploration join the United Federation of Planets". The idea of any book is to impart information to the reader and this is what this book does. I certainly would not give this book first time out to Grandma and expect her to understand it but some reviewers really do believe that to read a Dummies Book you have to be a "Dummy" some people actually have an IQ above 100 and a jopb that does not involve serving food. For people with an interest, managers and technicals just starting out its a good cheap and informative read. 5 stars.
- Amazon Customer Review
• "firewalls" Misleading ... Content Is General Internet Security
01 June, 2009
The title "Firewalls for dummies" is misleading. No, it does not talk to the layperson, or even someone trying to setup a home firewall. Rather, it targets manager-types at companies that have basic tcp/ip experience. The first 150 pages or so doesn't even have any solid examples of allow/deny rules. There is another book called "internet security for dummies". This should have probably been that book, because the depth it goes into general security issues like antivirus, file attachements, mail security is much more general than firewalls. Plus I think I see a few errors in the book and am unable to locate an errata for it online. I wrote to the FirewallsForDummies[at]hotmail.com address thats mentioned in the book to ask the authors for errata info, and it bounced back as mailbox not available.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Good Starting Point
15 June, 2008
Nutshell review - Not a book for the professional firewall administrator but, as the book title suggests, a decent enough book to provide the foundation for a general understanding of firewall issues and options. Also good for managers who need to get the general idea.
- Amazon Customer Review
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