C1006 Computer Networks Term 3 2007 Assignment – Part 5 final
VI. Network Security Measures and Countermeasures
To manage the network vulnerabilities which identified before, we need to set up our network security. The main purpose of providing network security is to keep the data confidentiality of the network, network integrity, and availability of the network to be used. Building our network’s security doesn’t mean totally eliminate all possible threats that may harm our network. Network security just minimizes the possibility of such threats to occur. Additionally, we can’t build our network security just by setting up one firewall and leave it to take care of the entire network’s security problems; it’s definitely not like that. Building our network security means that we need to set multi security devices and software which work in a coordination with each other in order to provide a well protected network.
We can start to set up our network’s security by considering our network’s vulnerabilities. So, here are some things we will do to build our network security:
1. Physical Security
2. Access Control
3. Operating System Security
4. Virus Protection
5. Internet Security
1. Physical Security
Physical security is aimed to prevent Click here to read the full post…
