CHAPTER 5Auditing Routers, Switches, and Firewalls
The network is the fundamental backdrop of your IT operations infrastructure, allowing data to transverse between users, data storage, and data processing. Routers, switches, and firewalls work together to enable data transfer while protecting networks, data, and end users. This chapter discusses how to review these critical pieces of your infrastructure while helping you to do the following:
• Unravel the complexity of network equipment.
• Understand critical network controls.
• Review specific controls for routers, switches, and firewalls.
Background
Routers, switches, and firewalls join and protect our networks, but how did we end up with this interconnected network of devices?
It started ...
Get IT Auditing Using Controls to Protect Information Assets, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
