Summary
Deploying IPSec on a network requires care. One must always keep in mind the threat that IPSec is being deployed to counter against. That can influence how VPN gateways and firewalls interact and can also dictate what sort of access is allowed. When supporting remote access it is important to keep in mind that policies are no longer symmetric, and that quite often a certification authority will be needed to bind user's identities to public keys.
Some of the configurations for the various deployment scenarios we discussed are very similar, even though the network to be protected and the threats to be protected against were all quite different. It is important, though, to keep in mind that when planning and designing a secure network one must look at the needs and the threat to develop the model and produce the configuration, not the other way around. It is possible (and less work) to take an existing configuration and shoehorn in the network design, but that would most likely result in unforeseen scaling problems at best and security flaws at worst.
Top IPSec (2nd Edition) ISBN: 013046189X
EAN: 2147483647 Year: 2004
Pages: 76 Authors: Naganand Doraswamy, Dan Harkins
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