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Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance (2nd Edition) |  | Authors: Jazib Frahim, Omar Santos
Publisher: Cisco Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 1152
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ISBN: 1587058197
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Product Description
For organizations of all sizes, the Cisco ASA product family offers powerful new tools for maximizing network security. Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, Anti-X and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance, Second Edition, is Cisco's authoritative practitioner's guide to planning, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting security with Cisco ASA. Written by two leading Cisco security experts, this book presents each Cisco ASA solution in depth, offering comprehensive sample configurations, proven troubleshooting methodologies, and debugging examples. Readers will learn about the Cisco ASA Firewall solution and capabilities; secure configuration and troubleshooting of site-to-site and remote access VPNs; Intrusion Prevention System features built into Cisco ASA's Advanced Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM); and Anti-X features in the ASA Content Security and Control Security Services Module (CSC-SSM). This new edition has been updated with detailed information on the latest ASA models and features. - Everything network professionals need to know to identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks with Cisco ASA
- Includes detailed configuration examples, with screenshots and command line references
- Covers the ASA 8.2 release
- Presents complete troubleshooting methodologies and architectural references
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Excellent Resource for Cisco ASA admins and for CCIE Security Candidates March 1, 2010
Shahid Shafi (San Diego)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is written by Omar Santos and Jazib Frahim and both of them are leading Security engineers from Cisco Systems. Hence you are in extremely capable hands and the book is worth every penny. Having said that, the book is huge (over 1000 pages) and it may not be feasible to read it cover to cover but it is filled with excellent information. It is comprised of 20 chapters emphasizing five key technology areas including Cisco ASA product overview and firewall portfolio, Firewall technology, IPS, Content Security (URL Filtering, Anti-X etc) and VPNs.
The book is filled with configuration examples for both CLI and ASDM GUI. It covers ASA 8.2 code and hence the content is extremely current, fresh and relevant. The book explains firewall theory, implementation, tuning and troubleshooting in great detail, making it an excellent resource for Cisco ASA administrators and CCIE Security candidates as the lab test ASA firewall in great detail.
I bought this book to learn more about firewall virtualization and transparent firewalls. The book spends over 100 pages on these two technologies and cover them with great detail. Virtualization is configured step by step using both CLI and ASDM and then important troubleshooting commands are also covered. Transparent firewalls are clearly explained with detailed configuration examples. Also the chapter contains a table showing readers how routed mode firewalls differ from transparent firewalls and what features are not supported when ASA is running in transparent mode.
Only minor complaint I have is the book should dedicate one more chapter for a detailed case study and showcase all technologies like Site to Site VPNs, Remote Access VPNs, SSL VPNs, IPS, AntiX, Tranparent Firewalls and Virtual Firewalls at the same time by showing a enterprise network with one head office and two branch offices. This will help readers to see all technologies in action at the same time and further clarify things.
Overall I am extremely satisfied with this product and strongly endorse it for CCIE Security candidates and Cisco ASA administrators as their one stop resource for Cisco ASA firewalls.
Excellent book on Cisco ASA. March 11, 2010
Syed Ali
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My company is a big Cisco shop and we extensively use 10+ Cisco ASAs for firewall and VPN purposes. I had bought the 1st edition of this book a few years back and it helped me a lot in doing my daily job of managing the devices.
We are now in the process of deploying AnyConnect clients and wanted to get some guidance around it. I bought this book last week and I already feel very comfortable about deploying AnyConnect in our environment.
Each chapter starts off with an in-depth architectural overview of the features to be discussed. It then provides full step-by-step configuration examples using both ASDM and CLI. There are a number of deployment scenarios in each chapter. It even covers many troubleshooting and monitoring examples that helped me a lot when I started deploying it in my lab network
A must have if you have a Cisco ASA or if you are planning to deploy a new ASA in your environment !!!!
Excellent resource for ASA management April 3, 2010
Kristy M. Westphal
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The sheer weight of this book intimidates you right out of the box! However, once you open it up and start reading, you realize that you have an excellent reference for the Cisco ASA product. From the beginning where the book introduces you to the overall solution to where it spends a chapter on each of the components mentioned in the title (even better- some have much more in-depth coverage) to the end where an entire section is dedicated to configuring the Virtual Private Networks, this book provides the necessary information to securely set up and use this important appliance.
I liked many aspects of this book, but when I initially cracked it open and saw the product overview alone, I knew that this was the type of book that I needed if I wanted to maintain this type of solution. Why? Well, this particular section walked you through the different models of the ASA product line, complete with pictures of each and diagrams of where and what all the different features are. This is the type of information that you don't need every day, but when you need it you typically end up scrounging for it on the web, taking considerable time and effort away from your troubleshooting efforts.
The rest of the book is equally detailed, providing the step by step information that you need to set up the important features of this product. Throughout the sections that explain the features, you find notes about default settings and other limitations that the feature may encounter. Architecture diagrams and screen shots also help the reader to understand what they are actually doing rather than just barking out orders and having the setup be dictated.
Lastly, to clear up one mystery that puzzled me from the start: Anti-X isn't a new fangled threat that we need to worry about. It appears that description covers the anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware configurations of the features that the box provides.
If you have an ASA appliance, then this book will be invaluable in your support of this device.
Incredibly detailed resource April 30, 2010
TimH (Lexington, KY United States)
This is by far one of the most complete collections of information and guidance for the ASA product line. From the beginning of the book covering not-quite-basic networking and security to the screen by screen configuration of client VPNs in the last chapter. This thing is huge at over 1100 pages but wow is it thorough. I can't imagine needing any other ASA book.
The document is broken up into 20 chapters and weighs in at 1100 pages. Fortunately the book is laid out nicely to give you half a chance of finding what you're looking for in this massive dead tree production. There are Product Overview, Firewall Technology, IPS, Content Security, and VPN sections.
Each section is then subdivided into working groups of data. I won't go into all the subdivisions here but for example...
The Firewall Technology section has chapters on Controlling Network Access, IP Routing, AAA, Application Inspection, Virtualization, Transparent Firewalls, Failover and Redundancy (there's 56 pages on this topic alone), and QoS. Each topic discusses the topic and then provides excellent step by step walkthroughs of how to implement the concept in the real world. Even the final paragraph summaries of each chapter are great to pull together everything you just read (or skimmed...) in that chapter.
I work with hundreds of clients in a year and most of them have some sort of cisco security gear in place. This has been and will continue to be a very valuable resource for my sanity checking of their designs. It would clearly also be of great use to any networker that has a few inches of space on their shelf.
Comprehensive Cisco ASA Reference! May 27, 2010
David West (Virginia, USA)
This is not a book about the Cisco ASA firewall, it's a tome of knowledge that covers every aspect of the ASA platform and the assorted services modules that are available for it. In addition to core topics such as NAT and firewalling there is excellent coverage of topics such as system maintenance and troubleshooting, quality of service and virtualization. Basically, if it can be done on the ASA then it's in this book. The VPN section of the book alone is more than 300 pages! I did find the IPS chapters to be a bit light on content but then again Cisco IPS is a completely different subject and this book covers everything you need to know to get IPS up and running in an ASA firewall. Overall, an impressive book, very comprehensive. I have been working with the PIX/ASA platform for over 10 years and still find this a great book to refer to.
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