Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

Appendix A. Deploying Effective Security Management

This appendix provides a short summary of security best practices for you to use when deploying the ASA/PIX Security Appliance in your network.

This appendix addresses the following topics:

• Layer 2 Best Practices— Guidelines on how to mitigate network sniffing and other Layer 2 attacks in your network.

• Authentication Best Practices— Guidelines on how to strengthen you authentication profile.

• Perimeter Best Practices— Guidelines on how to apply access rules in your network.

• Intrusion Prevention Best Practices— Guidelines on applying intrusion prevention software.

• Host Intrusion Prevention Best Practices— Guidelines on effective management of host intrusion prevention.

• VPN Best Practices— Guidelines ...