Networking For Dummies, 12th Edition

Chapter 19

Welcome to Cybersecurity Network

IN THIS CHAPTER

Assessing the risk for security

Determining your basic security philosophy

Physically securing your network equipment

Considering user account security

Looking at other network security techniques

Making sure your users are secure

As an IT professional, cybersecurity is the thing most likely to keep you awake at night. Consider the following scenarios:

• Your phone starts ringing like crazy at 3 o’clock one afternoon because no one anywhere on the network can access any of their files. You soon discover that your network has been infiltrated by ransomware, nefarious software that has encrypted every byte of data on your network, rendering it useless to your users until you pay a ransom to recover the data.
• Your company becomes a headline on CNN because a security breach has resulted in the theft of your customers’ credit ...