Summary

- Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoos Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage As a user of the Internet, you are fortunate to be tied into the worlds greatest communication and information exchange - but not without a price. As a result of this connection, your computer, your organizations network, and everywhere that network reaches are all vulnerable to potentially disastrous infiltration by hackers. Written by the AT&T Bell Labs researchers who tracked the infamous Berferd hacker and also built the firewall gateway at Bell Labs, Firewalls and Internet Security gives you invaluable advice and practical tools for protecting your organizations computers from the very real threat of a hacker attack through the Internet. You will learn how to plan and execute a security strategy that will thwart the most determined and sophisticated of hackers - while still allowing you easy access to Internet services. In particular, the authors show you a step-by-step plan for setting up a firewall gateway - a dedicated computer equipped with safeguards that acts as a single, more easily defended, Internet connection. They even include a description of their most recent gatewa