The Practice of Network Security: Deployment Strategies for Production Environments

Chapter 1. Defining the Scope

Growing up you may have played the Milton Bradley game Stratego. The concept of the game is fairly simple: There are two players, each player has a flag, and the goal is to defend your flag while trying to capture the enemy’s flag.

Stratego is a good analogy for network security. When designing a network security strategy your ultimate goal is to protect your corporate infrastructure, your flag, from attackers—both internal and external.

This book is designed to help you develop your network security strategy. Because each company has a different approach to network security, it does not attempt to define a specific strategy for you. Instead, the book concentrates on ways to help you reach your ultimate goal in ...