Question

A network diagram for a fictitious company is provided. Explain how you would improve the security of this corporate network. Take care to explain the technologies that you have chosen, their role in securing the network, and provide a diagram of the improved corporate network.

Unit: Enterprise Network Security

Answer 1

The security of the corporate network can be enchanced by using the several techniwues like proper auditing in which the auditor will be going through the netwrok log and analyzing the network for the issues tha might lead to network back drop. The company should be physically securing the network to safa-guard the network from the pyshical damage. The company should use the practice like MAC address filtering to ensure the high security of the network this technique will result in only connecting the people that are autorised by the company and have their mac address in the network saved, the compnay should be keeping the netwrok up-to-date to esnure that the network is not affected by the older software or hardware use. The best practice for the company to ensure the security of the network is to use the proper authentication techiue(802.1X) to authenticate the user before they are let to use the network and company should be using the encyrpted channels for the security of channels where the confidential data is shared or the company can encrypt the entire network or they can use VPN for the slected PCs and severs to ensure the security and data that should be shared over the network should be encrypted form and end-user should use the proper protocol to ensure data encryption at transmission(SSH v2 /HTTPS).