Network Security Management for a National ISP

Overview

A network is one of the most important basic resources a large institution (educational or commercial) needs to have. With widespread distributed deployment, managing the security of a network becomes very complex especially from the viewpoint of an ISP. Effective network and security management needs to be implemented taking into consideration the lack of bandwidth and availability of computing resources at the nodes. Security management now plays a larger role as all communication is over the insecure Internet. In this paper, the various issues involved in developing a Security Management System for a low bandwidth network is discussed. Then, a solution implemented based on open standards for n-Logue (a national ISP focusing on rural areas) is presented.