{"id":908,"date":"2019-04-13T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officesuppliesphoenix.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:21:32","slug":"protecting-networks-teamand-therefore-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.officesuppliesphoenix.com\/office-supplies-fountain-hills\/2019\/04\/13\/protecting-networks-teamand-therefore-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Protecting Your Network\u2019s Team\u2026And Therefore Your Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All over the land, there exists a group of anxious people. Anxious that at any minute, they might end up in a particularly awkward situation. Welcome to the world of the field-based engineer!<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, 12 in fact, but the memory hasn\u2019t faded, I was an unwitting accomplice that brought down an entire organization. I was told to visit a customer site during my lunch hour and install a new wireless controller \u2013 just paste on the configuration and connect it up. Easy job Rich\u2026you\u2019ll be back on your original customer site before you know it. As it transpired, the configuration hadn\u2019t been checked by the person in charge\u2026and no change of control had been agreed. You can pretty guess the rest! The only good that came from that dark day was that the customer embarked on changing what they had previously thought to be a 100% resilient network, into a 100% resilient network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long after the shouting had stopped, and having now described myself as a CLI Survivor \u2013 I decided that things needed to change!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would only commit my own CLI configurations and get them validated.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, I would avoid unnecessary CLI configurations completely where possible.<\/li>\n<li>Always have a back-out plan.<\/li>\n<li>Never rely on your contact actually having permission to make these changes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All quite laughable looking back on it, but of course, things weren\u2019t always quite as straightforward as they are today. We didn\u2019t really use NMS platforms to audit configs, and we certainly didn\u2019t push dynamic policies and host ACLs centrally. Furthermore, we didn\u2019t even use TACACS+ to secure access, or take it a step further and link into a change management\/ticketing system prior to authorizing access. Of course, nowadays that would mean my being limited to using just some \u201cshow\u201d commands, and even that would only be granted if I had associated ticket to name but I least I wouldn\u2019t have to suffer that particular walk of shame again!<\/p>\n<p>People don\u2019t talk about TACACS+, it\u2019s not exactly the \u201cbright lights\u201d \u2013 being by IT professionals, for IT professionals to be used by IT professionals it\u2019s no wonder it\u2019s so often overlooked\u2026but it really shouldn\u2019t be!<\/p>\n<p>Check our Herman Robers (@hrwlan) video for more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJ_fJmfY_RE\" width=\"712\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Destination url: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.arubanetworks.com\/solutions\/are-you-protecting-your-networks-teamand-therefore-your-network\/?utm_campaign=beHPE&amp;utm_source=beHPE&amp;utm_medium=Agency&amp;utm_content=BusinessSolutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/blogs.arubanetworks.com\/solutions\/are-you-protecting-your-networks-teamand-therefore-your-network\/?utm_campaign=beHPE&amp;utm_source=beHPE&amp;utm_medium=Agency&amp;utm_content=BusinessSolutions <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All over the land, there exists a group of anxious people. 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