Hardening Cisco Devices

Description

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

What will you learn

Hardening Cisco devices training course details

Technical network staff.
Technical security staff.

TCP/IP foundation for engineers.

5 days

Router security, Switch security, Cisco IOS, IOS versions, Cisco advisories, the management plane, control plane, data plane.

Hands on Checking IOS versions and advisories.

Infrastructure ACLs, Transit ACLs.

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

Passwords, privilege levels, AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS.

Hands on Password management.

Logging best practices, secure protocols, encrypting management sessions, configuration management.

Hands on Hardening the management plane.

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

Hands on Hardening the control 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.