NetScaler often sits in front of large web services processing large amount of data; some of these services may contain credit card transactions or serve sensitive data. It is therefore crucial that NetScaler is properly configured to protect the data. Also, with this large amount of data going through the application we might be required to troubleshoot network traffic or a session in general.
The following are some of the subjects that we will go through in this chapter:
Management best practices
Protecting against DDoS attacks
SSL and TLS best practices
Admin partitions
Auditing and AAA
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