Securing a Wide-Open Computer Network

Instead of choosing one single aspect of this course, I will be outlining how I've applied many of the security principles discussed in this paper. Selection Criteria: While there are many highly qualified IT professionals in the field today, there are also a large number of unskilled people who used the media's certification hype as leverage to gain employment in the IT industry. The best example of this is Microsoft's MCSE which teaches nothing in terms of security concepts. Having dealt with this situation myself, I though it might be helpful to do an overview of the steps that I've taken to secure a wide open network from almost zero knowledge.