Chapter 16
Network Security and Management
Introduction
Network management and especially network security are the hottest areas and issues in the ICT field these days. With the consistent attacks by hackers to our corporate networks and our own personal devices, it appears that these two areas will continue to remain in the forefront of the ICT field for the foreseeable future.
In this chapter, we will cover network security and management. We will start off by discussing the types of attacks and explain how each attack affects our networks and computing devices. Next we will move on to some basic concepts in the security field—accounting, authorization, and encryption. We will follow with a discussion of the various tools, technologies, ...
