Part IV
Security
Network engineers who believe their network will never be attacked or breached are wrong.
“But my network is too small for anyone to care!” No, it is not. Every network carries private information. There is an attacker out there who is interested in the data on your network.
Rather than assuming nothing can or will go wrong, assume
Your network will be attacked at some point in the future, causing services to be unreachable or unusable.
Your network will be breached at some point, and the attacker will threaten to either destroy critical data or release it publicly.
Against these threats, you can
Reduce the impact of attacks through planning. It is much easier to execute an existing plan (no matter how imperfect) than it ...
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