Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN) Foundation Learning Guide: (CCDA DESGN 640–864), Third Edition

Chapter 8 Evaluating Security Solutions for the Network

This chapter discusses network security solutions and contains the following sections:

• Defining Network Security

• Understanding Network Security Policy and Processes

Network security is an essential network service that spans the entire network. The modularity of Cisco Network Architectures for the Enterprise provides the ability to focus on a single security problem within a particular network module and integrate a solution into a global network design. A modular approach simplifies the network design and ensures that a security breach in one network module will remain isolated and not affect the entire network.

This chapter introduces the Cisco SAFE architecture strategy for designing ...