Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol that allows us to connect to devices securely by using encryption. Gone are the days were most networking engineers are happy with using plain telnet with it’s clear text transmission of data which could result in an attacker sniffing the line for usernames and passwords. Configuring SSH on a […]
By default a Cisco device does not have any passwords on it, so access to the console is open by default, and anyone connecting to the device is able to access privileged mode (enable mode). This of course is a security risk and one of the first things that should be done with a new […]
Hashing is very different from encryption even though so many people believe it is an encryption protocol. Yes it does scramble the data, so from that aspect it is an encryption program, but the big difference between hashing and encryption, is that Hashing is mathematically impossible to reverse. Now I’m not the kind of person […]
The concept of encryption can be quite daunting when you first look at it, however the basic concept of encryption is not that hard to understand When I moved into my house, my bathroom door didn’t have a key. The previous owners of the house didn’t know what key was needed for that door […]