High-Level Policies

Within each of the environments described in the previous sections, different types of business needs motivate the deployment of the different technologies. This section looks at some of the business needs that can arise in each of the different environments.

The Enterprise Environment

Within the enterprise environment, the most common needs are that of satisfying the business SLAs that exist between the different parts of the enterprise. For security purposes, an enterprise might need to ensure that access to its network is secure and is accessible only to the employees or other entities that are authorized to have access to specific enterprise resources.

Note

These business needs in this section are intended as illustrative ...

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