Complete LAN Security and Control

Plan, manage, and protect the security of your local area network.

• Define and identify threats
• Use preventive and corrective control methods
• Secure hardware, software, and network components
• Apply hardware and software controls

Secure your organization's most important asset — information

Covers emerging technologies such as imaging, wireless LANs, telecommuting, and rightsizing.

• Part one: The problem
1. LANs: The corporate lifeline
• Information equals power
• The changing LANscape
• Power to the people
• Understanding the problem
• Understanding management's need for control
• The need for security
• Self-assessment quiz
2. What is a LAN?
• LAN components
• Communication palindrome: ISO OSI
• Getting the data out
• Topologies
• The network interface
• The big three interface standards
• Protocols: the rules of the road
• How fast is data transmitted?
• Which LAN is best?
• Part two: The framework
3. What is a threat?
• Threats
• Threats to a LAN environment
• Threat scenarios
• Vulnerabilities
• Exposures
4. What is a control
• Types of control
• Areas of control
• Potential control issues
• Control process
• Relationship to management cycle
• Relationship to total customer service
• Relationship to risk analysis
• Controls & people
5. Managing risk: cost-benefit analysis
• Costs. benefits — & risks
• Risk
• Risk analysis
• Management decision
• Control implementation
• Effectiveness review
• Final words on risk management
• Part three: The solutions
6. Secure the LAN
• Information systems ethics: an oxymoron?
• The first step: administrative & organizational security
• Disaster preparedness
• Working with people: personnel security
• Protecting the office: physical & environmental security
• Riding the waves: communications & electronic security
• Iron age: hardware security
• Picking one's brains: software security
7. Applying controls to hardware
• The message is the medium: cabling
• Making the connection
• Are you being served?
• Sharing peripherals
• Workstations: the local intelligence
• Fault tolerance
• Backup strategies
• Static, noise, surges, brownouts, blackouts & other power problems
8. Applying controls to software
• It takes all types
• Network operating system
• Operating system
• Network management software
• Application software
9. Applying controls to communications
• Internetworking & connectivity
• Communication security guideline
• Network components
• Part four: The future
10. Future LAN security issues
• Wireless technology
• Cooperative computing
• Telecommuting
• Imaging: the last frontier
• Rightsizing
• LAN disaster
• Appendices
1. LAN security checklist
2. Password dictionary
3. LAN products
4. Organizations

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