Summary

This chapter summarizes the threats and vulnerabilities that hacking presents as well as the business case for considering security in campus design.

It covers the crucial devices and technologies for mitigating threats and follows this up by discussing the design implications within the framework of the Cisco SAFE Blueprint and the Cisco philosophy to have security present in every aspect of an organization.

Chapter 2 covers security in switches, and in the chapters to come, we further discuss network security as it relates to IP telephony, wireless connectivity, and network management.