Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks [Paperback]

Robert J. Shimonski (Author), Will Schmied (Author), v Chang (Author), Thomas W. Shinder (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1931836884 | ISBN-13: 978-1931836883 | Publication Date: May 2003 | Edition: 1

This book covers what an administrator needs to plan out and integrate a DMZ into a network for small, medium and Enterprise networks. In most enterprises the perception is that a firewall provides a hardened perimeter. However, the security of internal networks and hosts is usually very soft. In such an environment, a non-DMZ system that is offering services to the Internet creates the opportunity to leapfrog to other hosts in the soft interior of your network. In this scenario your internal network is fair game for any attacker who manages to penetrate your so-called hard perimeter.

- There are currently no books written specifically on DMZs
- This book will be unique in that it will be the only book that teaches readers how to build a DMZ using all of these products: ISA Server, Check Point NG, Cisco Routers, Sun Servers, and Nokia Security Appliances.
- Dr. Thomas W. Shinder is the author of the best-selling book on Microsoft's ISA, Configuring ISA Server 2000. Customers of the first book will certainly buy this book.

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From the Publisher

This is a comprehensive guide to designing, deploying, and maintaining a secure DMZ on any network. After erading this book you will be able to

·Build DMZ Segments Using Cisco PIX firewalls, Check Point NG, Nokia, and Microsoft ISA Server 2000
·Learn DMZ Security Measures: Reconnaissance, Penetration Testing, DMZ Hardening, and More
·Plan and Design a Wireless DMZ

And you will also get a bonus chapter on IIS Web Server Hardening Available from syngress.com!

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (May 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931836884
• ISBN-13: 978-1931836883
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rob Shimonski (www.shimonski.com) is an experienced entrepreneur and an active participant in the business community. Rob is a best-selling author and editor with over 15 years experience developing, producing and distributing print media in the form of books, magazines and periodicals. To date, Rob has successfully created over 100 books that are currently in circulation. Rob has worked for countless companies to include Entrepreneur Magazine, Microsoft, McGraw Hill Education, the National Security Agency and Digidesign. Rob has an extremely diverse background in the print media industry filling roles such as author, co-author, acquisitions editor, technical editor, copy editor and developmental editor. Since print media shifted to the digital domain, Rob has focused the past decade on developing all of the needed skills to produce audio and video media for the many of the same companies he has developed print media for. An expert in Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) design and video production, Rob has created over 500 different media packages to include commercials for TV, online advertising clips, audio podcasts and much more. Rob started to train others while in the US Marine Corps. Since, Rob has held a NY State teaching certificate as well as multiple trainer roles in colleges and trade schools across the world. Rob is a current member of ASCAP and the AES.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book on DMZs - it's about time!!, October 28, 2004

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Cisco Kid Redux (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks (Paperback)

I couldn't believe someone had finally taken the time to write about something so crucial in many networks today. With the advent of the dot-com bubble in the mid-90's, networks of various flavors sprung like weed all over the world; many of these were designed with the utmost intent for efficiency and security, unseen previously in many corporate enterprise networks. Taking from those years of innovation, this book details perimeter designs and implementations like I've never seen before! Bastion hosts and wireless DMZs even - a must have reference for the seasoned network administrator/architect!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never Before Seen, July 10, 2003

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jake M (MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks (Paperback)

Wow. This is all I can say from reading this book. I cant beleive the level of information in this book. As a Network Analyst, I found that this book clearly, painlessly and in a very detailed manner helped me deploy a DMZ on my network. Athough my network is not that huge, this book really helped. This is a great book that made me look good at work when I deployed a PIX with IIS and had to secure it on a DMZ. This book goes WAY deep into VLANs, BGP, Check Point, Windows 2000, Unix, and the list goes on. This book even has two chapters on setting up WLAN DMZs which I never even heard of. Wow.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of useful information, but poorly edited., June 25, 2004

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H. Goble "hg161" (Long Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks (Paperback)

The author writes on the level of a 6th grader. Here's an example sentance, "Although Windows 2000 is a secure OS, it is only as secure as you can make it". Which literally means "It is already as secure as you can make it". Anyhow, you probably don't know what I'm talking about. But almost every paragraph has a mistake like this in it. Sometimes it's anoying, and sometimes its confusing. There's pretty good info in this book, I just wish it was layed out more logically. Just like with the grammar, the author seems to skip around a lot and doesn't clarify things enough. I think there's a lot of good information, and I've learned alot, but it could be much much better.