Interesting question
The fundamentals of SNMP are sound: you have a dedicated TCP/IP Port over which to view a common set of configuration data for devices attached to the network. SNMP's main vulnerabilities come in...
View Articleencrypt it, add a real password
I don't mind the Write feature for management. My general approach would be to secure the protocol and add authentication. This may be there in v3 but anything I've seen with v2 or older has been...
View ArticleSNMP is need by some Windows printer drivers
SNMP is needed by some Windows printer drivers to talk to the printer - and MS only supports SNMP V2 - so you can't set the printers to use V3. Bummer....
View Articlerisk vs reward
I have said this before that if you are worried about someone capturing your SNMP traffic for malicious reasons then you already have much larger problems. A man in the middle attack is by far the...
View ArticleThat's the very thing I'm looking at right now
I popped open a printer interface and spotted snmp enabled. Since we use a different management appliance, I unchecked the box and saved the printer settings. Moments later, none of my users can print;...
View ArticleI'm using ssh tunnels with a different solution
The newer version of the solution has native SSL layer support but the version I started with had no encryption so SSH provided the tunnels very nicely.Static ARP tables seems to be the other thing to...
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