Cisco ASA : All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance

Identify, mitigate, and respond to network attacks

Understand the evolution of security technologies that make up the unified ASA device and how to install the ASA hardware Examine firewall solutions including network access control, IP routing, AAA, application inspection, virtual firewalls, transparent (Layer 2) firewalls, failover and redundancy, and QoS Evaluate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions including IPS integration and Adaptive Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module (AIP-SSM) configuration Deploy VPN solutions including site-to-site IPsec VPNs, remote- access VPNs, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Learn to manage firewall, IPS, and VPN solutions with Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM)

Achieving maximum network security is a challenge for most organizations. Cisco® ASA, a new unified security device that combines firewall, network antivirus, intrusion prevention, and virtual private network (VPN) capabilities, provides proactive threat defense that stops attacks before they spread through the network.

 

This new family of adaptive security appliances also controls network activity and application traffic and delivers flexible VPN connectivity. The result is a powerful multifunction network security device that provides the security breadth and depth for protecting your entire network, while reducing the high deployment and operations costs and complexities associated with managing multiple point products.

 

Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance is a practitioner?s guide to planning, deploying, and troubleshooting a comprehensive security plan with Cisco ASA. The book provides valuable insight and deployment examples and demonstrates how adaptive identification and mitigation services on Cisco ASA provide a sophisticated security solution for both large and small network environments.

 

The book contains many useful sample configurations, proven design scenarios, and discussions of debugs that help you understand how to get the most out of Cisco ASA in your own network.

 

?I have found this book really highlights the practical aspects needed for building real-world security. It offers the insider?s guidance needed to plan, implement, configure, and troubleshoot the Cisco ASA in customer environments and demonstrates the potential and power of Self-Defending Networks.?

?Jayshree Ullal, Sr. Vice President, Security Technologies Group, Cisco Systems® 

 

This security book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology Series. Security titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals secure critical data and resources, prevent and mitigate network attacks, and build end-to-end self-defending networks.

 

User review
Great Tool
This book makes it very easy to learn how to program the ASA to do what you need.

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Review on Cisco ASA
Dear all,
I am totally satisfied with the contents of the book.Needless to say that fulfilled my expectations for an in-depth analysis of the security aspects on Cisco ASA Systems.

Thodoris,
Athens, Hellas

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Very Helpful
Excellent reference book. I wouldn't want to curl up with a cup of hot cocoa and read it from beginning to end, but it was an essential tool in a recent firewall migration at my workplace. It also seems to be just about the only book about the relatively new asa platform.

User review
Great book.
This book has been very helpful for me. The only issue that I ran into was that the VPN section was a little outdated.

User review
Excellent book
This manual was excellent! Definitely something to keep at your desk as a reference.