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Network Security First-Step, Second Edition
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Network Security First-Step, Second Edition

by Thomas M. Thomas, Donald Stoddard
December 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 30m
English
Cisco Press
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Security Advisories and Alerts: Getting the Intel You Need to Stay Safe

You need to ensure a high level of operational security for the many assets within your organization: routers, switches, servers, laptops and desktops (Apple and Microsoft), BlackBerrys, smartphones, and so on. Pervasive threats exist, from a disgruntled employee to corporate espionage, as shown in Figure 3-1. This chapter deals with a select segment, information assurance, and how updates are managed within your organization.

Figure 3-1 Threat Agents

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Before you respond to security threats, you must be able to identify them. A threat agent exploits a vulnerability in an effort ...

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