Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls

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"What we need to know to make intelligent networking decisions."

Scott Kriens,
CEO, Juniper Networks

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What you’ll learn from this book:

• Configure Your Firewall for the First Time
• Understand the roles played by security zones, physical interfaces, and loopback interfaces
• Create and Configure Policies
• Use the WebUI and the CLI to create policies
• Understand the Components of a Policy
• Deploy Traffic Shaping
• Decide which traffic should be allocated more bandwidth and which traffic is nonessential
• Understand User Account Types and Authentication
• Implement the protocols such as RIP, OSPF, and BGP and learn the differences between them, as well as their strengths and weaknesses
• Find complete coverage of Interface-Based Source NAT, MIP, policy-based source NAT, VIP, and policy-based destination NAT
• How NetScreen legacy screen settings protect networks through a variety of detection methods
• Use VPNs in NetScreen Appliances

Contents:

• Networking, Security, and the Firewall
• Dissecting the Juniper Firewall
• Deploying NetScreen Firewalls
• Policy Configuration
• Advanced Policy Configuration
• User Authentication
• Routing
• Address Translation
• Transparent Mode
• Attack Detection and Defense
• VPN Usage and Theory
• High Availability
• Troubleshooting
• Virtual Systems