Designing Access Controls

Comprehensive Security Policy

The Process of Designing Access Control Security

This chapter outlines a step-by-step process for designing your access control security. It explains each step in-depth, helping you to understand all the factors you must consider when completing that step.

1.Choose the access control methods.

2.Make decisions about remote access (VPN).

3.Choose the endpoint integrity deployment method.

4.Choose the endpoint integrity testing method.

5.Choose Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers.

6.Add ProCurve Identity Driven Manager (IDM).

7.Select an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method for 802.1X.

8.Finalize security policies.

9.Lay out the network.

As you go through each step in the process, you will return to the factors you considered in Chapter 2: “Customer Needs Assessment.” Some of these factors are technical; others are business issues. A well-designed, comprehensive security policy takes both into account.

Example Network

To illustrate which decisions need to be made and which aspects of your network need to be considered for each step, this chapter presents a hypothetical university. ProCurve University (PCU) enrolls approximately 20,000 students and employs approximately 4000 faculty, administrative, and support staff members.

Figure 3-1is a simplified diagram of the PCU campus, showing the areas where the PCU IT staff must provide network access: the open-air plaza, the administration building, the engineering department with its specialized resources, the classrooms, the dormitories, and the library.

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