A Secure Network Design Framework for Universities Environment

Abstract

Computer networks are means of sharing resources and service between its users. The basic measure of how useful a network is its resources, and their availability. Therefore, network security is a very critical task in network construction, without an applied security, the availability of the network cannot be granted. The objective of this research is to create a secure framework for the university network, which can be trusted and used as standard, and guidelines for any farther network implementation. This is to be done by: - Specifying university network unique characteristics - Customize security standards to be applicable for universities networks. The generated framework has been applied to SUST network and proof that it is customizable and applicable to universities networks.