CSI Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 642-541)

Chapter 6. The SAFE Security Blueprint

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Defense in depth

• SMR

• IDS

• False positive

• HIDS

• NIDS

• OOB

• IPT

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Managing devices in-band

• Managing device out-of-band

• Implementing resiliency

• Analyzing design alternatives

More than anything else, the SAFE Blueprint is a design philosophy presented as a whitepaper.

Whitepapers

Lots of networking documents are presented as “whitepapers,” but how many network engineers—and aspiring network engineers—know what a whitepaper is? When in doubt, go to the dictionary. Merriam-Webster OnLine says that a whitepaper is “a detailed or authoritative report” on a topic. So now you know what's implied when someone says he has a whitepaper on a subject you need to know more about. ...