Chapter 5. Cisco Security Solutions

An effective security solution should counter one or more of the security threats that have been identified in a security policy as having the potential to impact the operations of the small-medium business (SMB) in a drastic, adverse manner. All of the security solutions presented in this chapter can be used either standalone or in a complementary manner to oppose one or more of these threats.

Ideally, the choice of a solution should result from the process of defining a security policy and should depend on the type of threats (see Chapter 4, “Overview of the Network Security Issues”) and their damage potential to the SMB's network resources and information assets. But if the ideal of having a well-defined ...

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