Netband Project - Device hardening

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  • Management Plane—The management plane manages traffic that is sent to the Cisco IOS device and is made up of applications and protocols such as SSH and SNMP.
  • Control Plane—The control plane of a network device processes the traffic that is paramount to maintaining the functionality of the network infrastructure. The control plane consists of applications and protocols between network devices.
  • Data Plane—The data plane forwards data through a network device. The data plane does not include traffic that is sent to the local Cisco IOS device.

Exclusive Configuration Change Access

  • ensures that only one administrator makes configuration changes to a Cisco IOS device at a given time.
B1rt1(config)#configuration mode exclusive auto
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B1rt1(config)#interface fa0/0
Configuration mode locked exclusively by user 'admin' process '56' from terminal '195'. Please try later.

Cisco IOS Software Resilient Configuration

  • stores a copy of the Cisco IOS software image and device configuration that is currently being used by a Cisco IOS device.
secure boot-image
secure boot-config

External links

Cisco Guide to Harden Cisco IOS Devices