Managing A Network Vulnerability Assessment

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Chapter 1

Introduction

The growth of distributed computing has been one of the major drivers of

network security. With the exponential growth of networks, the ease with

which information can be shared between and among computers makes

security more important but more difficult to implement and manage. Also,

computers are no longer connected to one trusted network; they are potentially

connected to every other network and its computers in the world, with or

without security implementations of their own.

In the old mainframe environment, security meant keeping the computer

in a locked room with limited access. As computing power and its physical

presence ...