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Linux Firewalls: Enhancing Security with nftables and Beyond
The book Linux Firewalls: Enhancing Security with nftables and Beyond is an essential reading resource for any Linux administrator dealing with Linux security topics. This guide provides comprehensive content on iptables and nftables and is updated with the new Linux kernels and includes code samples and scripts for Redhat, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. If you are an expert in Linux, it will help you gain a security understanding of any Linux system for different networks, from a small home network to large enterprise networks. This book covers the following topics:
- Install, configure, and update a Linux firewall that runs iptables or nftables.
- Migrate to nftables, or use the latest iptables enhancements
- Manage multiple complex firewall settings
- Create, debug, and optimize firewall rolls
- Use Smhain and other tools to protect file system integrity, network monitoring, and intrusion detection
- Hardware systems against port scanning and other attacks
- Discover exploitssuch as rootkitsand backdoorswith Chkrootkit
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Part I: Packet Filtering and Basic Security Measures
Chapter 1: Preliminary Concepts Underlying Packet-Filtering Firewalls
Chapter 2: Packet-Filtering Concepts
Chapter 3: iptables : The Legacy Linux Firewall Administration Program
Chapter 4: nftables : The Linux Firewall Administration Program
Chapter 5: Building and Installing a Standalone Firewall
Part II: Advanced Issues, Multiple Firewalls, and Perimeter Networks
Chapter 6: Firewall Optimization
Chapter 7: Packet Forwarding
Chapter 8: NAT–Network Address Translation
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Chapter 9: Debugging the Firewall Rules
Chapter 10: Virtual Private Networks
Part III: Beyond iptables and nftables
Chapter 11: Intrusion Detection and Response
Chapter 12: Intrusion Detection Tools
Chapter 13: Network Monitoring and Attack Detection
Chapter 14: Filesystem Integrity
Specifications:
Author: Steve Suehring
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Year of release: 2015
Number of Pages: 424
File size: 2.01MB
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