Network Security First-Step, Second Edition

Cisco Best Practice Overview and Guidelines

Trying to apply best practices and guidelines is difficult enough, but trying to do it when you need to worry about how putting in a certain access control list (ACL) affects the components of the configuration of your network or security components is something entirely different. You not only need to be aware of how they operate but also how they interoperate. Cisco provides a handy location where all the whitepapers, discussion groups, and so on are easily located. You can drill down to a specific IOS, and then a specific type configuration within that IOS, say Security and VPN, and from there you can narrow that beam a little more to find what it is specifically you’re looking for, say, Access Control ...