Chapter 3. Overview of the Cisco Security Solution and the Cisco Secure Product Family

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The only system that is truly secure is one that is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium-lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it….

—Gene Spafford, Purdue University

This statement is true. No matter what system you implement, you will never have a truly secure system. The best that network professionals can do is to implement a solution that is as secure as current technologies allow and ...

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