Chapter 4. Designing a Comprehensive Network Security Solution
In this last chapter, we cover a use case and take what you’ve learned throughout this book to apply a comprehensive solution to a particular set of business requirements for a fictitious company, XYZ Corp.
XYZ Corp
XYZ Corp is a holding company that has traditionally had on-premises computing assets in the form of web servers. XYZ is a reseller of online advertising. As such, it hasn’t really traditionally stored much sensitive information directly about customers. XYZ Corp is diversifying within the marketing space and has recently purchased a direct online advertiser.
From a business standpoint this means that the type of data that will be processed by XYZ Corp will include customer information across multiple geographies. The company needs to scale its advertising campaigns quickly so that it is expanding into the cloud to take advantage of IaaS services.
XYZ Corp has asked you come up with a security architecture that addresses its existing on-premises assets as well as its new cloud footprint. The company also needs the architecture to take into account the protection of sensitive information, which it is processing as part of its direct marketing campaigns. XYZ Corp advertising campaigns require HA because they are time sensitive. It plans to run its own email infrastructure to facilitate these campaigns. The company will also be using some third-party APIs for SMS and other messaging platforms.
From an architectural ...
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