Features

Provide a Business Orientation
Familiarize your students with the technologies and security capabilities they will encounter in business. To this end, each chapter includes a realistic end-of-chapter minicase.

Maintain an Enterprise Perspective
Enterprise systems (like SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Syspro, etc.) are widespread in industry. This textbook explores the use of networking and security technologies within the context of enterprise systems.

Promote a Systematic Comprehension with Layered Models
Networking and security are embedded within typically complex systems. Traditional layered models (OSI and TCP/IP) have been successfully used to integrate an understanding of basic networking functions. In addition to these, this textbook adds richer, enterprise-oriented models including the Three-Layer Hierarchical Model used for network design and equipment deployment; Defense in Depth to structure layers of security; and Enterprise Architecture a systematic approach to an integrated understanding of the place of network technologies, the security of each, and their role in the overall function of a business enterprise.  

Explore a Wide Range of Technologies
Cover all contemporary communication and networking technologies within an integrated framework including, among others, the cloud, the internet, and IoT.

Integrate Coverage of Security
Each chapter includes one or more sections that pinpoint topical security issues and remedies. Security is too important to enterprise networks to be relegated to a catch-all chapter or two.