This three-day, hands-on seminar focuses on creating firewall implementations that protect your information resources. You will implement numerous commercial and freeware firewalls, examine best practices for protecting DNS services, HTTP, and SMTP. You will explore proven strategies for defending your networks against unauthorized access and denial-of-service attacks with the new leading edge prevention tools. You will examine the weaknesses of firewall architectures and how good security processes strengthen user- and host-based authentication, warning banners, address translation and masquerade, remote management, alerts, content filtering, spoofing, complex protocols and other advanced issues. Hands-on labs are designed for impact ? providing you essential features of various firewall architectures including packet filters, stateful packet filting and proxy firewalls and how they work with VPN's. Session size is limited for maximum hands-on experience.