Mitigating Security Threats
To mitigate security threats, you need to create a comprehensive network security plan. This plan will include how to mitigate numerous kinds of security threats.
- Hardware threats
- Environmental threats
- Electrical threats
- Maintenance threats
- Reconnaissance attacks
- Access attacks
- Password attacks
- Anti-x
Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) helps you provide an overall, in-depth, security design for your network with a variety of tools that can prevent a lot of the security problems I've listed in this chapter. Since a lot of the individual tool names start with anti, Cisco uses the term anti-x to refer to the whole class of security tools that prevent these problems, including antivirus, antispyware, antispam, ...
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