Chapter 2. Basic Network Access Control
This chapter focuses on network access authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA), the process of validating who and what is allowed to access to the network before providing that access.
When you typically think about network access AAA, you might think about technologies like 802.1X or network access control (NAC) providing authentication and authorization before allowing a user or device onto a wired or wireless network. However, as a CCIE Security candidate, you must always remember that there are other tools in your toolbox for controlling access using identity.
Examples include the use of cut-through proxy functions to obtain a user’s credentials before opening a path through a firewall ...
Get Integrated Security Technologies and Solutions - Volume II: Cisco Security Solutions for Network Access Control, Segmentation, Context Sharing, Secure Connectivity and Virtualization, First Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
