''Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker'' is a 1994 book by William R. Cheswick and

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that helped define the concept of a

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. Describing in detail one of the first major firewall deployments at

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, the book influenced the formation of the perimeter security model, which became the dominant network security architecture in the mid-1990s. In 2003, a second edition was published, adding Aviel D. Rubin to its authors.

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External links

Web page for the second edition''Firewalls and Internet Security'' at Google Books
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