IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Communications Remarks
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S 5.7 Network management
Initiation responsibility: Head of IT Section, IT Security Management
Implementation responsibility: Head of IT Section
Networks can be managed centrally or locally at the various nodes. This will
depend on the technical possibilities and administration of the network nodes.
In any case, central co-ordination of all network activities of an
agency/company is required in order to avoid redundancies. The following
should be controlled centrally:
- selection and layout of cables;
- selection of the IT systems and applications in order to avoid
incompatibilities;
- central allocation of network addresses and user IDs;
- the organisational allocation of network components, e.g. to departments.
Local management of the various network nodes and the connected IT
systems is also possible.
In this respect, the functions and responsibilities of system administrators
must be clearly specified and regulated (cf. also S 2.26 Designation of an
administrator and his substitute).
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000