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 Chapter 1, "Hackers and Threats" This chapter presents a high-level overview of the cost of attacks, including pertinent statistical evidence, and explores the benefits gained from security audits. Chapter 2, "Crucial Need for Security: Vulnerabilities and Attacks" By delving further into the core of threats, this chapter, written with the corporate executive in mind, explores a wide array of vulnerabilities, including those which emanate from design, human, and implementation issues. Chapter 3, "Security Technology and Related Equipment" This chapter presents a high-level overview of mitigation fundamentals for the corporate executive. A wide variety of equipment and technology is presented in a format that is designed to be accessible for the non-technical reader. Chapter 4, "Putting It All Together: Threats and Security Equipment" This chapter analyzes the trends of well-known threats, learned in Chapter 2, and utilizes SAFE, a best practices guide for designing and implementing secure networks, to present a variety of topology options that can help to mitigate risk, by using technologies explained in Chapter 3. Chapter 5, "Policy, Personnel, and Equipment as Security Enablers" This chapter presents an executive-level planning and policy approach to securing each facet of an organization, both its equipment and personnel. The first of two senior management surveys is also presented in this chapter; created for this book, the survey is designed to determine the corporation's aversion to network security risk. Chapter 6, "A Matter of Governance: Taking Security to the Board" Recognizing that security is greater than the sum of its parts, and that many network security decisions are now elevated to the board, this chapter addresses an organization's most senior executives by exploring the issues inherent in security governance and return on prevention. Chapter 7, "Creating Demand for the Security Proposal: IT Management's Role" This chapter focuses on executive and senior-level IT managers by providing them with tools to better understand the business end of their organization and presents a process to garner support and create demand for security proposals. Chapter 8, "Risk Aversion and Security Topologies" This chapter explores the subjective nature of risk and, utilizing information garnered from the surveys in Chapters 5 and 7, presents topology models linked to an organization's unique risk-tolerance level. Chapter 11, "Security Is a Living Process" By introducing the security wheel, a process that ensures continual security renewal, this chapter views prevention as an on-going investment. The chapter also delves into some of today's pertinent legal issues and ramifications and concludes with an analysis of network security strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Download free ebook for netwoking: Business Case for Network Security
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