Managing Cisco Network Security, 2nd Edition

Foreword

Today’s Security Environment

Information security has become an extremely important topic for everyone over the past few years. In today’s environment the number of touch points between an organization’s information assets and the outside world has drastically increased: millions, of customers can interact via a Web site, thousands of employees and partners may connect using Virtual Private Network s (VPNs), and dozens of critical applications may be completely outsourced to application service providers (ASPs).The deployment of wireless LANs also means that users no longer even need a physical connection to the network to gain access.

In addition to an explosion of touch points, we are faced with an infinitively complex and rapidly changing ...