Introduction

Infrastructure security is at the root of your entire corporate security plan. Other individual security area plans (ISAPs) may overlap with your infrastructure security plan to some extent. For example, a wireless network is part of your infrastructure, but it s also a large enough area to be addressed in a separate project plan. You ll need to ensure that your corporate IT security project and your ISAPs cover all the bases, but be aware that there are overlapping areas that should be clearly delineated if you re working on several projects in parallel. You don t want project teams wrestling over ownership of one part of your network or another. In this chapter, we ll look at the basic infrastructure components and how to secure them; then we ll create a project plan utilizing this information.