Firewalls and Internet Security

Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker is a 1994 book by William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin that helped define the concept of a network firewall.^[1][2] Describing in detail one of the first major firewall deployments at AT&T, the book influenced the formation of the perimeter security model, which became the dominant network security architecture in the mid-1990s.^[3]

Firewalls and Internet Security

Author	William Cheswick Steven M. Bellovin
Genre	Information Security
Publisher	O'Reilly Media
Publication date	1994
ISBN	020163466X

In 2003, a second edition was published, adding Aviel D. Rubin to its authors.^[4]