Case Study

The Future Corporation's network structure is shown in Figure 7-3.

Figure 7-3. The Future Corporation

Scenario

One of the axioms of good security is to “trust, but verify.” Although The Future Corporation trusts its business partner, Plastics Incorporated, its security policy requires the application of an intrusion detection sensor at border routers between all business partners. Use the following instructions to configure the IDS on Cisco IOS router DallasR3:

Step 1.
Set the IDS to use syslog for alarm notifications. Messages will be sent to the syslog server located at 172.16.10.47.
Step 2.
Protect the entire ...

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