Santos:CCNA Sec 210-260 OCG

Management Plane Best Practices

When implementing a network, remember the following best practices. Each one, when implemented, improves the security posture of the management plane for your network. In other words, each additional best practice, when put in place, raises the level of difficulty required on behalf of the attackers to compromise your device:

Strong passwords: Make passwords very difficult to break. Whenever you use passwords, make them complex and difficult to guess. An attacker can break a password in several ways, including a dictionary and/or a brute-force attack. A dictionary attack automates the process of attempting to log ...