Chapter 8. Network Security Policies, Vulnerabilities, and Protection

Exam Topics in This Chapter

52 Policies

53 Standards Bodies

54 Incident Response Teams

55 Vulnerability Discussions

56 Attacks and Common Exploits

57 Intrusion Detection

This chapter reviews today's most common Cisco security policies and mechanisms available to the Internet community to combat cyber attacks. The standard security body, CERT/CC, is covered along with descriptions of Cisco IOS-based security methods that ensure that all attacks are reported and acted upon. Cisco Security applications, such as Intrusion Detection System, are covered to lay the foundations you need to master the topics in the CCIE Security written exam.

This chapter covers the following topics:

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