Chapter 3. Network Foundation Protection and Cisco Configuration Professional

In this chapter, you learn about Cisco IOS Network Foundation Protection (NFP) as a framework for infrastructure protection, all its components, and commonly used countermeasures as found in Cisco IOS devices. You also learn how to use Cisco Configuration Professional (CCP) to implement security controls on Cisco IOS routers.

More precisely, you learn how to do the following:

• Categorize common threats against the network infrastructure

• Describe Network Foundation Protection as a framework to develop and implement security controls to protect the network infrastructure

• List and compare security controls that protect the control plane

• List and compare security ...

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