This executable analyzes a Cisco IOS configuration file and verifies compliance with recommended security best practices
The tool ensures your configuration aligns with security best practices by checking for:
✅ Basic Security Hardening
- Disabling IP domain lookup
- Configuring an enable secret and username secret
- Enabling AAA new-model and AAA authentication for login and enable
✅ User & Privilege Management
- Ensuring local user privilege is set to 1 (no high-privilege default accounts)
- Configuring VTY, console, and TTY exec-timeout values (≤10 minutes)
✅ Network Services & Protocols
- Disabling CDP, BOOTP, DHCP, IP identd, source routing, and PAD service
- Enabling TCP keepalives (in and out)
✅ SSH & Authentication Hardening
- Configuring SSH timeout, authentication retries, and enforcing SSH version 2
- Setting a domain name and generating RSA keys (modulus ≥ 2048)
✅ Logging & Monitoring
- Configuring logging (on, buffered, console, syslog host, trap level, timestamps, source-interface)
- Ensuring NTP servers are configured
✅ SNMP & Banner Security
- Checking SNMP community strings to avoid insecure default values
- Setting banner MOTD, login, and exec banners
✅ Default & Insecure Accounts
- Identifying generic or default usernames (e.g.,
admin,cisco,test,demo,guest,default,administrator)
⚡ Ensure your Cisco IOS configurations meet industry security standards!
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