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Cisco Network Security: Secure Routing and Switching

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Learn how to secure Cisco routers and switches, mitigate Layer 3 and Layer 2 attacks, and secure a VLAN.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
What you need to know
Packet Tracer and exercise files

1. Secure Routing and Switching

Secure routing and switching: Overview
Control, data, and management planes
Router and switch security basics

2. Securing Cisco Routers

Layer 3 attacks: Overview
Secure the control plane
Examine privilege levels
Assign privilege levels
Configure IOS role-based CLI access
Implement IOSR Resilient Configuration
Routing update authentication
Challenge: EIGRP authentication
Solution: EIGRP authentication

3. Security on Cisco Switches

Layer 2 attacks: Overview
Spanning-Tree Protocol
STP attacks
ARP spoofing
MAC spoofing
macof attack
CDP/LLDP reconnaissance
DHCP spoofing

4. Mitigation Procedures

Implement DHCP snooping
Dynamic ARP inspection
Implement port security
BPDU guard, root guard, and loop guard

5. VLAN Security

VLAN attacks
Security implications of a PVLAN
Security implications of a native VLAN

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Lisa Bock

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