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15th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '99)
Policy-Based Management: Bridging the Gap
Phoenix, Arizona
December 06-December 10
ISBN: 0-7695-0346-2
Susan Hinrichs, Cisco Systems
In a policy-based system, policy goals are described with respect to network entities (e.g., networks and users) instead of enforcement points (e.g., firewalls and routers). This global view has several advantages: usability, global rules are closer to the goals of the human administrator; scalability, the policy system ensures that the enforcement points are configured appropriately, whether there are 1 or 100 enforcement points; and security, the policy system ensures that the policy is enforced consistently. This paper describes techniques for accurately translating from global policy rules to actual per-device configurations, and it describes how these techniques were used in the implementation of Cisco Secure Policy Manager.
Citation:
Susan Hinrichs, "Policy-Based Management: Bridging the Gap," acsac, pp.209, 15th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '99), 1999
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