Network Security Concepts

As an aspiring network professional, it’s important to have a solid foundation in various network security concepts and principles. Designing, building, and maintaining networks is quite awesome within the industry, but hackers are always looking for new ways to compromise organizations and steal their data. Network professionals design a network with network security principles and technical controls to prevent and mitigate cyber-attacks and threats to help safeguard the assets of the company.

In this chapter, you will understand the need for network security principles and how they are used to help prevent various cyber-attacks and threats. Additionally, you will explore various techniques that are commonly implemented within large organizations to improve the authentication process between users and systems. Lastly, you will explore security and business risk management techniques that are used to help organizations identify and mitigate various...