Cisco PIX Firewalls: Configure, Manage, & Troubleshoot eBook / IT (Information Technology) Books

Cisco PIX Firewalls: Configure, Manage, & Troubleshoot

By Charles Riley, Umer Khan, Michael Sweeney

HIGHLIGHT
The Cisco PIX firewall is the #1 market leading firewall, owning 43% market share.* Cisco is poised to release the newest, completely re-designed version 7 of the PIX operating system in the first quarter of 2005. "Cisco PIX Firewalls: configure | manage | troubleshoot" is Umer Khan's completely updated and revised edition of his #1 best-selling first book, "Cisco Security Specialist's Guide to PIX Firewalls." (*Source: Infonetics Research)

Updated Version of the Syngress Bestseller

Date: May 2005

Pages: 608 (est.)

User level: All

DESCRIPTION
Umer Khan's first book, "Cisco Security Specialist's Guide to PIX Firewalls," ISBN: 1931836639, has consistently maintained its spot as the #1 best-selling PIX book on amazon.com by providing readers with a clear, comprehensive, and independent introduction to PIX Firewall configuration. With the market for PIX Firewalls maintaining double digit growth and several major enhancements to both the PIX Firewall and VPN Client product lines, this book will have enormous appeal with the audience already familiar with his first book.

• The Cisco Pix firewall is the #1 market leading firewall, owning 43% market share. Cisco is poised to release the newest, completely re-designed version 7 of the Pix operating system in the first quarter of 2004.
• "Cisco Pix Firewalls: configure | manage | troubleshoot" Covers all objectives on the new Cisco Pix certification exam, making this book the perfect study guide in addition to professional reference.
• Umer Khan's first book "Cisco Security Specialist's Guide to PIX Firewall" has been the #1 market leading Cisco Pix book since it was published in 2002.

MARKET INFORMATION
Cisco is the revenue-leading vendor overall, with 43% of the total for VPN and firewall hardware and software (up from 41% in 2Q03); they had strong growth overall, but particularly in hardware secure routers and high-end appliance. Worldwide VPN and firewall hardware and software revenue grew 9% to $780 million between 2Q03 and 3Q03, and will reach $955 million by 3Q04, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly worldwide market share and forecast service, VPN and Firewall Products. By 2006, annual revenue is projected to hit $4.5 billion, a CAGR of 17% since 2000.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Umer Khan (CCIE #7410, MCSE, SCSA, SCNA, CCA, SCE, CNX) is the manager of networking and security at Broadcom Corporation (www.broadcom.com). Umer's department is responsible for the design and implementation of global LAN/MAN/WAN solutions that are available with 99.9% up time (planned and unplanned), as well as all aspects of information security. Among other technologies, Broadcom's network consists of Cisco switching gear end-to-end, dark fiber, OC-48 SONET, DWDM, 802.11 wireless, multi-vendor virtual private networks (VPNs), and voice over IP (VoIP) technology. The information security group deals with policies, intrusion detection and response, strong authentication, and firewalls. Umer has contributed to several other books, including the Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Study Guide (ISBN: 007-212369-9) and Sniffer Pro Network Optimization & Troubleshooting Handbook (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-931836-57-4). Umer received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND
Cisco's PIX Firewall Series of security appliances provides robust, enterprise-class, integrated network security services, including stateful inspection firewalling, virtual private networking (VPN), intrusion protection. There are several models within the PIX family, ranging from compact, “plug-and-play” desktop firewalls small and medium sized businesses to "carrier-class" gigabit firewalls for large corporate and government enterprise and service-provider environments.