{"id":1568,"date":"2021-06-12T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2021-06-29T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:21:14","slug":"a-case-for-port-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"A case for port security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Port security watches for multiple MAC addresses on a port and if it detects &gt;1 it disables the port. <br>Pros:<br>+If a user tries running responder, the port gets disabled<br>+If a user plugs in a wireless access point, the port gets disabled<br>Cons:<br>-If anyone plugs in a small switch\/hub to increase the port count, the port gets disabled<br>-doesn&#8217;t work when desk phones have a 2 port switch on the back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possible solution:<br>Configure alerts when a port adds mac addresses<br>pre-configure a group of ports without port security.  <br>Tell the Tier1 admins to use one of those ports when then find a switch in use<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it worth the headache?  Maybe for a subset of users that randomly click links in emails.  Then you can label those ports &#8220;Danger Zone&#8221;   \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port security watches for multiple MAC addresses on a port and if it detects &gt;1 it disables the port. Pros:+If a user tries running responder, the port gets disabled+If a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,174,4],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-networking","tag-responder","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}