Chapter 2 Flashcards
The edge router is…
the last router between the internal network and an untrusted network, such as the Internet.
Strong password guidelines (6)
- 10 or more characters
- mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols and spaces
- avoid passwords based on easily identifable pieces of information
- misspell
- change often
- do not leave in obvious places
Commands to increase password security
- security passwords min-length
- service password-encryption
- exec-timeout minutes [seconds]
How do you disable the exec process for a specific line?
no exec
The enable secret password uses this kind of hash and thus is not safe to use
MD5
A command to configure type 9 encryption using plaintext password?
enable algorithm-type
A command to create a user with a type 9 encryption
username name algorithm-type
How to configure a username/password authentication on a line
login local
Virtual Login Security Enhancements
- Implement delays between successive login attempts
- Enable login shutdown if DoS attacks are suspected
- Generate system-logging messages for login detection.
A period of time when login is blocked
Quiet period
How to specify a banner?
banner
How to disable logins after a specifed nubmer of failed login attempts?
login block-for seconds attempts tries within seconds
How to specify allowed hosts for a quiet period?
login quiet-mode access-class (acl-name | acl-number)
How to specify a number of seconds between unsuccessful login attempts?
login delay seconds
How to log successful and unsuccessful logins?
login on-success log [every login]
login on-failure log [every login]