Network Security Architectures

Chapter 16. Secure Network Management and Network Security Management

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Utopian Management Goals

• Organizational Realities

• Protocol Capabilities

• Tool Capabilities

• Secure Management Design Options

• Network Security Management Best Practices

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. —Titus Maccius Plautus, “Mostellaria,” Act I, Sc. iii, l. 40, 259-184 B.C.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus, Maxim 358, first century B.C.

In this chapter, you will learn the ins and outs of secure network management and network security management. The first is a way to manage your network securely; the latter is a way to manage the network security ...