One of the most tedious tasks in networking is documentation. Sometimes it can really bore me! Recently at work I’ve had the pleasure of not only documenting what’s there, and designing a network overhaul, but developing our IT Security Policy. This can certainly open up a can of worms. So doing due diligence I decided to take some time and refresh my mind on the deep interworkings of security policy. Here is a list of some of the resources that I looked at. While I’m not going to publish my companies security policy I will say that using a combination of these best practice recommendations and a little command-line kung-fu I’m pretty confident that the network is about as safe and locked down as it’s going to get.
Anyone looking for some PIX 515s? Got a few that came out in the upgrade.
Anyhow, here are the resource links:
Cisco’s Best Practice White Paper
NIST Security Guidelines (PDF)
Feel free to add any resources you’ve used in the comments section below.
