[149764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carsten Bormann)
Wed Feb 15 17:50:55 2012
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120215223615.GN5968@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:49:25 +0100
To: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 15, 2012, at 23:36, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> security
That must be the top of the list:
Switches provide security (by traffic isolation)
DHCP provides security (by only letting in hosts we know)
MAC address filtering provides security (fill in the blanks=85)
NAC provides security
NATs provide security
Firewalls provide security
Buying Vendor-_ provides security
Gr=FC=DFe, Carsten