Network Security Architectures

Chapter 18. Conclusions

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Management Problems Will Continue

• Security Will Become Computationally Less Expensive

• Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Networks

• Legislation Should Garner Serious Consideration

• IP Version 6 Changes Things

• Network Security Is a System

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Zi, The Art of War

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance—the idea that anything is possible. —Ray Bradbury, Los Angeles Times, August 9, 1976

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