Abstract
The principal goal of SAFE, Cisco's secure blueprint for enterprise networks, is to provide the best practice information to interested parties on designing and implementing secure networks. SAFE serves as a guide to network designers considering the security requirements of their networks. SAFE takes a defense-in-depth approach to network security design. This type of design focuses on the expected threats and their methods of mitigation, rather than on “put the firewall here, put the intrusion detection system there” instructions. This strategy results in a layered approach to security, where the failure of one security system is not likely to lead to the compromise of network resources. SAFE is based on Cisco products and those of ...
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