The purpose of the Network Security chapter is to explain the challenges associated with securing a network under a variety of attacks for a number of networking technologies and widely used security protocols, along with emerging security challenges and solutions. This chapter aims to provide the necessary background in order to understand other knowledge areas. An understanding of basic networking protocol stack and TCP/IP suite is assumed.

We speak with CyBOK Network Security Knowledge Area author Sanjay Jha for an introductory overview of the topic.