CCNA Security Exam Cram (Exam IINS 640-553)

Planning for Secure Management and Reporting

Secure management and reporting is too often applied on top of a secure architecture as an afterthought rather than being designed into the solution from the beginning. Some hard questions need to be asked early on in the design because they bear on the implemented secure architecture. These questions are typically asked during the Initiation phase and answered during the Acquisition and Development phase of the Cisco Secure Network Life Cycle first introduced in Chapter 2, “Building a Secure Network Using Security Controls.” In general, what types of activity need to be logged and what protocols and devices are required to perform these functions will determine the technology deployed ...