Chapter 10

Securing the Infrastructure

Lauren Collins,    kCura Corporation

Collectively, an infrastructure consists of circuits, cabinets, cages, cabling, power, cooling, hardware, data, and traffic. Devices are placed meticulously to transmit data, to secure data, and to allow an organization to conduct business efficiently and effectively. Security is presented to protect the infrastructure, especially critical applications, and custom rules strive to restrict the susceptibilities of such structures and systems. Incidental occurrences may severely impact the business, and potentially the economy, which is the prime reason engineers architect an infrastructure to manage information securely. The nature of the business that is conducted should ...

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