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Security Issues: Key in a DSL-Managed Service Offering

Overview Security advances are often a response to new threats. This is certainly the case for DSL-managed service offerings, where real and potential security threats exist based on familiar and new classes of attack. Service providers need a structured methodology for achieving security for their digital subscriber line (DSL)-managed services. This means focusing on the cost/benefit information that helps determine the requirements and effectiveness of security policies, procedures, personnel and automated defense systems.

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Publisher	InfoPac International, Inc.	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	DSL, Network Security

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