Linux Firewalls

System administrators need to stay ahead of new security vulnerabilities that leave their networks exposed every day. A firewall and an intrusion detection systems (IDS) are two important weapons in that fight, enabling you to proactively deny access and monitor network traffic for signs of an attack. Linux Firewalls discusses the technical details of the iptables firewall and the Netfilter framework that are built into the Linux kernel, and it explains how they provide strong filtering, Network Address Translation (NAT), state tracking, and application layer inspection capabilities that rival many commercial tools. You'll learn how to deploy iptables as an IDS with psad and fwsnort and how to build a strong, passive authentication layer around iptables with fwknop. Concrete examples illustrate concepts such as firewall log analysis and policies, passive network authentication and authorization, exploit packet traces, Snort ruleset emulation, and more with coverage of these topics: Passive network authentication and OS fingerprinting iptables log analysis and policies Application layer attack detection with the iptables string match extension Building an iptables ruleset that emulates a Snort ruleset Port knocking vs. Single Packet Authorization (SPA) Tools for visualizing iptables logs Perl and C code snippets offer practical examples that will help you to maximize your deployment of Linux firewalls. If you're responsible for keeping a network secure, you'll find Linux Firewalls invaluable in your attempt to understand attacks and use iptables-along with psad and fwsnort-to detect and even prevent compromises.

Introduction Chapter 1: Care and Feeding of iptables Chapter 2: Network Layer Attacks and Defense Chapter 3: Transport Layer Attacks and Defense Chapter 4: Application Layer Attacks and Defense Chapter 5: Introducing psad: The Port Scan Attack Detector Chapter 6: psad Operations: Detecting Suspicious Traffic Chapter 7: Advanced psad Topics: From Signature Matching to OS Fingerprinting Chapter 8: Active Response with psad Chapter 9: Translating Snort Rules into iptables Rules Chapter 10: Deploying Fwsnort Chapter 11: Combining psad and Fwsnort Chapter 12: Port-Knocking vs. Single Packet Authorization Chapter 13: Introducing fwknop Chapter 14: Visualizing iptables Logs Appendix A: Attack Spoofing Appendix B: A Complete fwsnort Script

Linux firewalls provide capabilities that rival commercial firewalls, and are built upon the powerful Netfilter infrastructure in the Linux kernel. Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response explores using Netfilter as an intrusion detection system (IDS) by combining it with Snort rulesets and custom open source software created by the author. Providing concrete examples to illustrate concepts, the book discusses Linux firewall log analysis and policies, passive network authentication and authorization, exploit packet traces and Snort ruleset emulation, and more. Perl and C code snippets are included to help readers maximize the deployment of Linux firewalls as effective mechanisms for the detection and prevention of various network-based attacks.

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