Network Security Principles and Practices

Case Study

This case study looks at a security policy design and implementation for a typical enterprise network. We will look at the various steps the security policy design goes through and discuss the final outcome as well as the ongoing initiatives in keeping the infrastructure secure.

This case study uses a hypothetical company called Biotech, Inc. Biotech, Inc. is a small to medium-sized enterprise company that has about 5000 users using the corporate network in one site and two remote locations with 250 users in each of these remote locations. In addition, about 250 users telecommute. Most of Biotech, Inc.'s business is pharmaceutical and is not conducted from their public web servers. The public web servers mostly serve to establish a ...