Firewalls For Dummies

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Regain control of the applications
and users on your network!
Traditional firewalls haven’t changed much over
the past 15 years and can no longer protect your
network. That’s because they were never designed
to control all of the evasive, port-hopping, and
encrypted Internet applications that are so
common today. You’ve added intrusion prevention,
proxies,antivirus, URL filtering, and much more —
all to no avail. It’s time to fix the firewall!
• What Enterprise 2.0 applications are — and
how they create new risks and challenges for
your organization
• Why traditional firewalls are ineffective
against today’s threats — and why quick
fixes and add-on capabilities don’t work

Open the book and find:
• How Enterprise 2.0
applications create newrisks for your organization
• Why traditional firewalls
can’t protect your network
• How next-generation
firewalls stand apart from
other security solutions

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• What features and
capabilities you need
in your firewall

• What a next-generation firewall is — what
it isn’t, and why you need one (or more)
• How to get the most out of your firewall —by
creating effective policies, asking the right
questions, and segmenting your network for
optimum performance
• Discover advanced features and capabilities —
that make next-generation firewalls a powerful
solution to protect your network and regain
control

Learn to:
Go to Dummies.com®
for videos, step-by-step examples,
how-to articles, or to shop!

• Differentiate between “good”and “bad” applications
• Identify evasive techniques used
by applications
• Implement effective application
and network controls
Brought to you by

Lawrence C. Miller, CISSP, has worked in
information security for more than 20 years.
He is the coauthor of CISSP For Dummies and
a dozen other titles. He is also a Palo Alto
Networks customer and liked it so much he
bought the company —well, he’s not that
rich (yet) — but he did write this book!

ISBN 978-0-470-93955-0
Book not for resale

Lawrence C. Miller, CISSP

About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks™ is the network security company. Its nextgeneration firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and
granular policy control of applications and content — by user,
not just IP address — at up to 10Gbps with noperformance
degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID™ technology,
Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control
applications — regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic, or SSL
encryption — and scan content to stop threats and prevent
data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0
and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly
reducingtotal cost of ownership through device consolidation.
For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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