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This is more of a high-level management question, but maybe someone has an answer here for this subject. Whether it's SAFE or the new Self Defending Network strategy, has anyone done a comparison to how Cisco's security methodologies map to existing...
Although there are plenty of guidelines out there for securing Cisco routers, I"ve yet to see any guidelines for securing Cisco Catalyst Switches (as well as other network devices produced by Cisco). Does anyone out there have any suggestions for lo...
Does anyone know if Cisco has a recommendation for the number of rules/access list lines per firewall? I know within Check Point, there is a recommendation for no more than 50 rules per firewall within the Security Policy Rule Base. Looking for an ...
We are looking at ways in which CiscoWorks can do checksumming of IOS configurations for an audit we are conducting. So far, we haven't been able to ascertain how to do this. Does anyone know how to do this with CiscoWorks?
Well, I understand the AAA aspects of switches, as well as the port security and IP Permit lists. What I'm looking for are guidelines, such as what is described in security guidelines published by NSA's website http://www.nsa.gov/snac/cisco/index.ht...
Another book you might wish to look at called "Network Auditing: A Control Assessment Approach" by Gordon E. Smith. It is not Cisco specific, but takes a vendor neutral viewpoint and has templates to go with it. Not too high level, but gets the poi...
What I'm looking for is a checksumming feature that essentially does a diff report on any configuration change made within CiscoWorks on any Cisco device. This is important for trend analysis and tracking for reporting to management.
