By Ray Blair
Cisco safe Firewall providers Module (FWSM)
Best practices for securing networks with FWSM
Ray Blair, CCIE® No. 7050
Arvind Durai, CCIE No. 7016
The Firewall companies Module (FWSM) is a high-performance stateful-inspection firewall that integrates into the Cisco® 6500 swap and 7600 router chassis. The FWSM displays site visitors flows utilizing software inspection engines to supply a robust point of community defense. The FWSM defines the protection parameter and allows the enforcement of safety guidelines via authentication, entry keep watch over lists, and protocol inspection. The FWSM is a key portion of someone deploying community security.
Cisco safe Firewall prone Module (FWSM) covers all facets of the FWSM. The e-book presents an in depth examine how the FWSM strategies info, in addition to install recommendation, configuration information, options for community integration, and reports of operation and administration. This ebook will give you a unmarried resource that comprehensively solutions how and why the FWSM capabilities because it does. this data helps you to effectively install the FWSM and achieve the best sensible make the most of your deployment. useful examples all through convey you ways different clients have effectively deployed the FWSM.
By analyzing this booklet, you'll find out how the FWSM features, the diversities among the FWSM and the ASA protection equipment, how you can enforce and continue the FWSM, the newest beneficial properties of the FWSM, and the way to configure universal installations.
Ray Blair, CCIE® No. 7050, is a consulting structures architect who has been with Cisco for greater than eight years, operating totally on defense and big community designs. He has two decades of expertise in designing, imposing, and keeping networks that experience incorporated approximately all networking applied sciences. Mr. Blair continues 3 CCIE certifications in Routing and Switching, safety, and repair supplier. he's additionally a CNE and a CISSP.
Arvind Durai, CCIE No. 7016, is a complicated companies technical chief for Cisco. His fundamental accountability has been in assisting significant Cisco clients within the firm region. one in every of his focuses has been on safety, and he has authored a number of white papers and layout courses in a number of applied sciences. Mr. Durai keeps CCIE certifications, in Routing and Switching and Security.
- Understand modes of operation, defense degrees, and contexts for the FWSM
- Configure routing protocols and the host-chassis to help the FWSM
- Deploy ACLs and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
- Apply type and coverage maps
- Configure a number of FWSMs for failover support
- Configure software and protocol inspection
- Filter site visitors utilizing clear out servers, ActiveX, and Java filtering functions
- Learn how IP multicast and the FWSM interact
- Increase functionality with firewall load balancing
- Configure IPv6 and uneven routing
- Mitigate community assaults utilizing shunning, anti-spoofing, connection limits, and timeouts
- Examine community layout, administration, and troubleshooting top practices
This safety booklet is a part of the Cisco Press® Networking know-how sequence. safeguard titles from Cisco Press aid networking execs safe serious info and assets, hinder and mitigate community assaults, and construct end-to-end self-defending networks.
Category: Networking: Security
Covers: Firewall security
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