BEING A FIREWALL ENGINEER : AN OPERATIONAL APPROACH: A Comprehensive guide on firewall management operations and best practices

Understand different firewall products and the Packet-flows. Hardening and best practices of firewall management with real world example. Get familiarize with Change management and understand how to incorporate change management process in to firewall management operations. This book give you a broad overview on Firewalls, packet flows, hardening, management & operations and the best practices followed in the industry. Though this book is mainly intended for firewall administrators who are in to operations, this book give a quick introduction and comparisons of the major firewall vendors and their products. In this book I have covered the following topics. • Various Job roles related to Firewalls. • What makes you a firewall expert? • Know the major firewall vendors and their models. • Understand the packet flow or order of operation in each firewall. • Understand the different types of firewalls. • Understand the daily tasks of a firewall administrator • Understand device hardening. • Guidelines on hardening the firewalls. • Explains major hardening standards and compliance. • Understand Change Management process. • Illustration on How to make a firewall change (incorporating Change management process) with a real world example. Note: This book is not a configuration guide.