Chapter 3. Device Security

This chapter covers the following key topics:

  • Physical Security— This section explores issues related to the physical security of networking equipment.

  • Device Redundancy— This section deals with many different ways of designing device redundancy to secure a network.

  • Router Security— This section deals with specific issues related to securing the routers in a network. The emphasis is on techniques available to make attacking the routers themselves a more difficult task.

  • PIX Firewall Security— This section deals with specific issues related to securing a network's PIX Firewalls. The emphasis is on techniques available to make attacking the PIX Firewalls themselves a more difficult task.

  • Switch Security— This section ...

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