Network Security

Presented by:
Iram Hanif
 Content

• What is Network Security?

• How does Network Security work?
• Goals of Network Security
• Types of Attack in Network Security
 What is Network Security?

• Network security is defined as the process of creating a defensive approach

that secures a company’s data and its resources across its network. It
protects the organization against any form of a potential threat or
unauthorized access.
 How Does Network Security Works?

• When planning the network security of an organization, you need to

acknowledge that an attack can occur in any area. Therefore, you need to
consider three levels of security controls and those include:
Physical Network Security
Technical Network Security
Administrative Network Security
 Physical Network Security

• Physical network security is used to prevent unauthorized individuals from

gaining physical access to components such as routers or cabling
cupboards. This is done with the help of locks, biometric authentication,
and a range of other devices.
 Technical Network Security

• Technical security involves the protection of data stored in the

network or data getting in and out of the network. Data protection
should focus on unauthorized access and also malicious use by
employees.
 Administrative Network Security

• Administrative security controls consist of security policies and

processes that control user behavior, including how users are
authenticated, their level of access that control network accessibility
level by different users.
 Goals of Network Security

• The primary goal of network security are Confidentiality,

Integrity, and Availability. These three pillars of Network
Security are often represented as CIA triangle.
Confidentiality:
 The function of confidentiality is to protect precious business data from
unauthorized persons. Confidentiality part of network security makes sure that the
data is available only to the intended and authorized persons.
Integrity:
This goal means maintaining and assuring the accuracy and consistency of data.
The function of integrity is to make sure that the data is reliable and is not changed
by unauthorized persons.
Availability :
The function of availability in Network Security is to make sure that the data,
network resources are continuously available to the legitimate users, whenever
they require it.
 Types of Attack

There are two types of attack:

Passive Attack
Active Attack
Passive Attack:
A passive attack attempt to monitoring or make use of information from the
system .The goal of opponent is to obtain information is being transmitted but
does not effect system.
 Active Attack:

These attacks attempts to alter system resources or affect their

operations.
This attack involve some modification of the data stream or
creation of false statement.