392 Cyberpower
• the way that management is split between various entities when net-
works from different domains interconnect (the difcult of providing a
consistent end-to-end control framework); and
• the way that a public network is, by denition, open to the public, which
is to say, open to entities that are benign or malevolent, without any
automatic means of distinguishing between them.
These factors mean that this becomes a complex environment to control.
Good network management, particularly including the management of con-
gurations, performance, and incidents, helps ensure the availability and
integrity of infrastructures, services, and data. In addition, the aspect of net-
work management that refers to nancial management allows ...