Process of Network Security, The: Designing and Managing a Safe Network - Softcover

This wide-ranging, up-to-date, conversational guide to network security focuses on the most important success factors: process and mindset. Security expert Thomas Wadlow shows exactly what it means to "be" a successful network security manager within a large business organization. Learn how to define what an organization's security goals ought to be -- and how to implement an effective security policy quickly, without endless committee meetings or company politics. Understand who may be attacking you, and how to "think pathologically" about your network, putting yourself in the shoes of your attacker. Evaluate which information resources are most worth protecting; learn how to build an effective security team; and discover how to build security systems that protect the enterprise as a whole, not just individual devices. Learn how to fortify your network components and design; monitor and audit your network; even quantify the value of security. The book also presents five exceptionally detailed chapters on how to respond effectively to an attack -- from forensics and log analysis to damage control. For every manager and executive concerned with network security, including sysadmins, netadmins, security managers, CIOs, CFOs, and CEOs.

In The Process of Network Security, security specialist Thomas A. Wadlow reveals the approaches, techniques, and best practices that effectively secure the modern workplace. Written for network managers and administrators responsible for the security of large, enterprise-wide networks, this book focuses on security as a continuous process involving vigilant daily efforts in analysis, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance. It also emphasizes that in order to truly protect the enterprise, security professionals must consider not just individual machines, but the entire system--machines, people, and procedures.

The Process of Network Security discusses the many issues involved and walks you through the specific steps of setting up a secure system, focusing on standard operating procedures and day-to-day operations and maintenance. Providing a broad perspective on the challenge of enterprise security, this book covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Understanding the nature of attacks and attackers
• Setting security goals
• Creating a secure network design
• Building a team
• Fortifying network components
• Implementing physical and personnel security
• Monitoring and ordering a network
• Discovering and handling an actual attack
• Dealing with law enforcement authorities

You will find many experience-based observations, insights, and sound advice to point you in the right direction and to help you avoid potentially dangerous pitfalls and threats that face your network security. The book also addresses the "catch-22" that security specialists face: how to demonstrate the value of security when proof of its success cannot always be thoroughly tracked or measured.

Written in a conversational tone, The Process of Network Security conveys both the specific information and the general mindset that will enable you to anticipate, prevent, and respond to network threats.

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