Chapter 1: Designing a Secure Network Architecture

Security professionals need to analyze security requirements and objectives to ensure an appropriate, secure network architecture for a new or existing network and to provide the appropriate authentication and authorization controls.

Designing a modern enterprise network has many practical and security challenges. De-perimeterization means that access to information systems may be made from devices outside of the enterprise network. The types of devices can range from a handheld smartphone used to access a customer record to an Internet of Things (IoT) device transmitting telemetry data to a critical monitoring dashboard.

Regulatory or industry compliance may require strict network segmentation ...

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