Description: The security provided by firewalls and VPNs is only as strong as the protocol rules and policies that administrators create. This book covers the leading firewall products, describing in plain English what features can be controlled by a policy and taking the reader through the steps for writing the policy to fit the objective.
Brief description: Abhishek Singh is a Security Researcher on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) team, where he performs analysis of vulnerabilities to develop signatures. He was previously employed with Symantec as a Senior Software Engineer. He was also one of the initial technical members of the Third Brigade Security Center, now part of Trend Micro. He has also worked for SafeNet.
Abhishek was a leading inventor of various patent pending technologies in IDS/IPS and an algorithm for faster analysis of binaries and two-factor authentication. He served as Technical Editor for Vulnerability Analysis and Defense for the Internet and Identifying Malicious Code Through Reverse Engineering. He has published Internet Drafts and security-related papers in primer journals and for various conferences.
Abhishek holds a Master of Science in Information Security and a Master of Science in Computer Science, both from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Technology, BHU, India.