The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook

Chapter 10. Auditing Cisco Routers and Switches

Solutions in this chapter:

▪ Functions of a Router, Its Architectures, and Components

▪ How a Router Can Play a Role in Your Security Infrastructure

▪ Router Technology: A TCP/IP Perspective

▪ Understanding the Auditing Issues with Routers

▪ Sample Router Architectures in Corporate WANs

▪ Router Audit Tool (RAT), Nipper

▪ Security Access Controls Performed by a Router

▪ Security of the Router Itself and Auditing for Router Integrity

▪ Identifying Security Vulnerabilities

▪ Audit Steps over Routers

▪ Sample Commands

▪ Cisco Router Checklists

Summary

Introduction

In this chapter we will focus on Cisco routers because Cisco has the largest market share of internet-based routers. The addition of statefull packet filtering ...