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******** ************* ******* ***** ***** *** port *****, ** ******* ******, *********Â *******,***** ***,** ********, **********.
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Comments (9)
Undisclosed #1
Another good defense-in-depth approach is to setup SNMP monitoring on your managed switches to report any time a port comes up. This can help detect rogue devices plugged into the network, as well as devices that might be flapping. It obviously should be disabled for ports that are connected to devices like office PCs, or other equipment that is expected to power cycle a lot, but these are generally not the ports you are worried about for rogue devices, as they are already out in the open.
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Shannon Davis
The USB cable lock would have been great years ago when some software platforms required a USB dongle. Hey it looks like a thumb drive so it must be a thumb drive. Doh!
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Ty Mullen
04/23/19 08:30pm
We just used these for the first time and they were fine for the intended use.
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Jon Dillabaugh
04/25/19 12:57pm
Physically securing unused switch ports is a good start, but locking the ports electronically is more likely to block access. Using a black hole VLAN or simply disabling ports is what we prefer to do. This system alone won’t prevent people from unplugging existing patches, but it will prevent access on unused ports.
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