Reviews for Firewalls complete

The average rating for Firewalls complete based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-03 00:00:00 Chantal Charms This book is more slanted to an admin, but a few things for the home users. After reading I concluded the best thing to do is just disconnect from the wall and use your home computer to play video games, but since we're not going to do that there was a summary statement for us poor saps at home: - for your browser, recommend turn off java, javascript, browser plugins, activex controls, if you can, of course many useful websites stop working when you do so. java script, oddly this is not a Sun product, don't know where that comes from. anyway i turned it off from the preferences menu and the first site i visited wouldn't work as it needed java script. for Microsofters turnoff AcitveX controls (not necessary on UNIX/apple systems using MS browsers). since i dont have access to a MS system i don't know if this is a pain or not. Other tidbits: - you should tier your passwords, that is if you do banking or your 401k online, make that the 44 character password.. ok maybe not that long, but use odd chars numbers etc. for login into some public site, yahoo.music.download, use something else, etc

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-14 00:00:00 Donald Slatter This book is amazing or useless, depending on how you look at it. :-D If you need to simply "get it done" with a particular firewall, proxy etcetera, forget it. This book is useless. If, however, you have worked with firewalls, proxies, and their kind for a while and you want to enrich your mastery of them, this book is amazing. Cheswick and Bellovin present fundamentals and subtleties that cut across particular products with amazing clarity and detail.