Hardening Cisco devices training course description

A hands on course focusing on how to lock down Cisco IOS routers and switches.

What will you learn

• Harden Cisco devices.

Hardening Cisco devices training course details

Hardening Cisco devices training course content

• Introduction

Router security, Switch security, Cisco IOS, IOS versions, Cisco advisories, the management plane, control plane, data plane.
Hands on Checking IOS versions and advisories.

• Access control

Infrastructure ACLs, Transit ACLs.
Hands on Restricting access to the device, Filtering data traffic.

• Management plane: Securing operations

Passwords, privilege levels, AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS.
Hands on Password management.

• Management plane: Other general hardening

Logging best practices, secure protocols, encrypting management sessions, configuration management.
Hands on Hardening the management plane.

• Control plane

Disabling reception and transmission of certain messages, Limiting CPU impact of control plane traffic, securing routing protocols.
Hands on Hardening the control plane.

• Data plane

Transit ACLs, disabling unused services, disabling unnecessary protocols, anti spoofing, limiting CPU impact of data plane traffic, identifying and tracing traffic, Netflow, VLANs, port security.
Hands on hardening the data plane.

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