Chapter 83: Securing the Infrastructure
Abstract
Collectively, an infrastructure consists of circuits, cabinets, cages, cabling, power, cooling, hardware, data, and traffic. Devices are placed meticulously to transmit data, secure data, and allow an organization to conduct business efficiently and effectively. Security is presented to protect the infrastructure, especially critical applications, and custom rules strive to restrict the susceptibilities of such structures and systems. Incidental occurrences may severely affect the business, and potentially the economy, which is the prime reason engineers architect an infrastructure to manage information securely. The nature ...
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