Summary

In this chapter, we talked about risks to networking devices, including attacks on the management, control, and data planes—attacks on the management plane that intend to break into devices or prevent us from managing them, attacks on the control plane that target the protocols that a device works with, and attacks on the data plane that forward the information. We also talked about attacks on device resources and how to discover and protect against them.

Now that you have completed this chapter, you will be able to protect your communications devices against various attacks targeting the management, control, and forwarding planes, and set notifications for such attacks when they happen.

In the next chapter, we will talk about eavesdropping, packet analysis, and behavior analysis, and then go on to how to defend against attacks on the network protocols, getting deeper into identifying and protecting our network.