Whitepaper 02-04: Critical Analysis of an Organization Network

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Government is demanding that private industry improve delivery efficiency while simultaneously decreasing costs – all the while meeting ever-more-stringent information assurance requirements. To achieve these goals, organizations of all sizes must ensure that their networks are run with a strict eye toward cost containment. The key to cost containment lies in increased productivity (powered by scalability) and automation (powered by a centralized network infrastructure). Our organization’s network is the starting point for this analysis. The goal is to analyze how increased productivity and automation have been deployed using our industry’s best security practices to provide a high level of confidentiality, availability, and integrity. The results of our security decisions are reviewed and the lessons learned are presented. We include a series of recommendations to enable decision makers to select new technology solutions to ensure a continued strong security posture while minimizing procurement and maintenance costs.