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Title: Firewalls for Dummies, Second Edition by Brian Komar, Ronald Beekelaar, Joern Wettern ISBN: 0-7645-4048-3 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 16 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good start for industry basics.
Comment: 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.
Rating: 1
Summary: Firewalls for Dummies
Comment: This is one of the poorest "For Dummies" books I have ever read (and I have several). The information, while technically accurate, is often times obtuse and full of geek speek, meaning you don't know what the author is talking about. It is also what we call CIPO (clear if previously understood).
The best chapter in the book, if there is one, talks about configuring Black Ice (my "personal" firewall of choice) and Zone Alarm. But I already knew how to do that, as Black Ice is very easy to install and set up.
If you are a commercial fire wall specialist, most of this material will be redundant to you. And if you are just a home user, then you will not understand much of it, as it is geared towards commercial fire wall installations, and all the heavy jargon that goes with that.
Fire wall technology, like virus technolgy, can only be learned on the job with those company experts like Black Ice or Norton. They are just not going to make this stuff easy for anyone, and no book learning is going to give you much of a clue here, including this book.
Sorry, that's just the way it is. You want to learn all about fire walls? Then go to work for Zone Alarm or Black Ice.
Rating: 3
Summary: Trully for Dummies
Comment: I like the 'for Dummies' editions since I was reading Internet for Dummies. It has a humble explanation to present things in very unique approach. Clear and easy to understand, just like telling you what a heaven look like in human language.
This book contains very basic information that might help to anyone who has no idea what a firewall is. Very good explanation!
Here are the Content that will show you about the prefect dummies explanation.
Part 1: Introducing Firewall Basics
Chapter 1: Why do you need a Firewall?
Chapter 2: IP Addressing and Other TCP/IP basics
Chapter 3: Understanding Firewall Basics
Chapter 4: Understanding Firewall Not-So-Basics
Chapter 5: "The Key Is Under the Mat" and Other Common Attacks
Part 2: Establishing Rules
Chapter 6: Developing Policies
Chapter 7: Establishing rules for Simple Protocols
Chapter 8: Designing Advanced Protocol Rules
Chapter 9: Configuring "Employees Only" and Other Specific Rules
Part 3: Designing Network Configuration
Chapter 10: Using Windows as a Firewall
Chapter 11: Configuring Personal Firewalls: Zone Alarm and BlackICE
Chapter 12: The Champ: check Point FireWall-1
Chapter 13: Choosing a Firewall That Meets Your Needs
Part 5: The Part of Tens
Chapter 14: Ten Tools You Can't Do Without
Chapter 15: Ten Web Sites to Visit
The reason I give 3 stars is just because this book does not a have a practical development on how a Firewall should be. There are many Firewalls types in the world and this one is just explain in Microsoft Windows based. Yes, This book is not for technical professionals, this book is made for IT managers without a necessity the whole nuts and bolts of a Firewalls.
I prefer this best as a starting reading and if you're done with this, try to look 'Building Internet Firewalls, SE', 'Linux Firewall', 'Linux Firewall, SE', Hacking Exposed series to tighten up your firewalls.
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Title: Network Security for Dummies by Chey Cobb ISBN: 0764516795 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Virtual Private Networks for Dummies by Mark S. Merkow ISBN: 0764505904 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Networking for Dummies, Sixth Edition by Doug Lowe ISBN: 0764516779 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Tcp/Ip for Dummies, Fourth Edition by Candace Leiden, Marshall Wilensky, John Landry ISBN: 0764507265 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Personal Firewalls by Jerry Lee Ford ISBN: 0789726254 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 24 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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