LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches (Networking Technology: Security) By Eric Vyncke, Christopher Paggen
Publisher: Cisco Press 2007 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1587052563 | PDF | 2.8 MB
A practical guide to hardening Layer 2 devices and stopping campus network attacks
Contrary to popular belief, Ethernet switches are not inherently secure. Security vulnerabilities in Ethernet switches are multiple: from the switch implementation, to control plane protocols (Spanning Tree Protocol [STP], Cisco® Discovery Protocol [CDP], and so on) and data plane protocols, such as Address Routing Protocol (ARP) or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)…