Terms you'll need to understand:
Techniques you'll need to master:
Cisco is quite plain in the SAFE Blueprint: "This document presumes that you already have a security policy in place. Cisco Systems does not recommend deploying security technologies without an associated policy." Everything that follows from this early paragraph in the Blueprint assumes that you are implementing your organization's policy; the Blueprint is about the technologies to do that effectively. To look at the problem another way, the SAFE Blueprint offers the most effective technical means to do the job; the security policy defines the job to be done. If you don't know what you're supposed to be doing, how do you know if you've done it wellor done it at all? |