Supporting Network Security Design
Goals
- Explain the importance of network segmentation and use of trusted and untrusted zones
- Describe security implications of internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT)
- Explain the importance of physical security
Zone-based Security
A zone-based security model groups hosts with the same level of trust into separate network segments.
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traffic between segments are subject to policies and rules
- enforced by security appliances
- e.g., firewalls, proxy servers, IDS/IPS
- perform filtering to analyze contents of connection requests
- allow, deny, or log them
- enforced by security appliances
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important for configuring perimeter security