Cisco ASA: All-in-one Next-Generation Firewall, IPS, and VPN Services
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By (author): Andrew Ossipov Jazib Frahim Omar Santos
Cisco® ASA
All-in-One Next-Generation Firewall, IPS, and VPN Services, Third Edition
Identify, mitigate, and respond to todays highly-sophisticated network attacks.
Today, network attackers are far more sophisticated, relentless, and dangerous. In response, Cisco ASA: All-in-One Next-Generation Firewall, IPS, and VPN Services has been fully updated to cover the newest techniques and Cisco technologies for maximizing end-to-end security in your environment. Three leading Cisco security experts guide you through every step of creating a complete security plan with Cisco ASA, and then deploying, configuring, operating, and troubleshooting your solution.
Fully updated for todays newest ASA releases, this edition adds new coverage of ASA 5500-X, ASA 5585-X, ASA Services Module, ASA next-generation firewall services, EtherChannel, Global ACLs, clustering, IPv6 improvements, IKEv2, AnyConnect Secure Mobility VPN clients, and more. The authors explain significant recent licensing changes; introduce enhancements to ASA IPS; and walk you through configuring IPsec, SSL VPN, and NAT/PAT.
Youll learn how to apply Cisco ASA adaptive identification and mitigation services to systematically strengthen security in network environments of all sizes and types. The authors present up-to-date sample configurations, proven design scenarios, and actual debugs
all designed to help you make the most of Cisco ASA in your rapidly evolving network.
Jazib Frahim, CCIE® No. 5459 (Routing and Switching; Security), Principal Engineer in the Global Security Solutions team, guides top-tier Cisco customers in security-focused network design and implementation. He architects, develops, and launches new security services concepts. His books include Cisco SSL VPN Solutions and Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Deployment and Troubleshooting.
Omar Santos, CISSP No. 463598, Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) technical leader, leads and mentors engineers and incident managers in investigating and resolving vulnerabilities in Cisco products and protecting Cisco customers. Through 18 years in IT and cybersecurity, he has designed, implemented, and supported numerous secure networks for Fortune® 500 companies and the U.S. government. He is also the author of several other books and numerous whitepapers and articles.
Andrew Ossipov, CCIE® No. 18483 and CISSP No. 344324, is a Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer focused on firewalls, intrusion prevention, and data center security. Drawing on more than 16 years in networking, he works to solve complex customer technical problems, architect new features and products, and define future directions for Ciscos product portfolio. He holds several pending patents.
Understand, install, configure, license, maintain, and troubleshoot the newest ASA devices
Efficiently implement Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) services
Control and provision network access with packet filtering, context-aware Cisco ASA next-generation firewall services, and new NAT/PAT concepts
Configure IP routing, application inspection, and QoS
Create firewall contexts with unique configurations, interfaces, policies, routing tables, and administration
Enable integrated protection against many types of malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs) via Cisco Cloud Web Security and Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO)
Implement high availability with failover and elastic scalability with clustering
Deploy, troubleshoot, monitor, tune, and manage Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) features
Implement site-to-site IPsec VPNs and all forms of remote-access VPNs (IPsec, clientless SSL, and client-based SSL)
Configure and troubleshoot Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Use IKEv2 to more effectively resist attacks against VPNs
Leverage IPv6 support for IPS, packet inspection, transparent firewalls, and site-to-site IPsec VPNs
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