Internet Firewall Essentials

Additional Firewall Resources

Finally _ and perhaps most important of all _ is the need for you as an administrator to constantly study and follow the latest security warnings and alerts as they are published. This will allow you to understand and prepare for the latest tricks that hackers are using today. As the security consciousness bar is being raised, so is the level of the hacker's basic skill set. There are a number of extremely valuable resources available on the Internet, and a listing of them are provided here as a starting point:

Telstra http://www.telstra.com.au/info/security.html
COAST http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/coast.html
CERT mailing list mailto:cert-advisory-requests@cert.org
Firewalls mailing list mailto:majordom o@greatcircle.com
Firewalls archives http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls
Newsgroups comp.security.firewalls, comp.security.misc

Additionally, everybody should have a copy of Building Internet Firewalls by D. Brent Chapman and Elizabeth D. Zwicky, published by O'Reilly &Associates, Inc.

You can like to Network Computing's hands-on review of firewalls .

For a current guide to shipping Firewall Products, check out our Interactive Buyer's Guide .

Updated November 15, 1996