Configuring Security

This section describes switch security and access control. The system handles various types of security.

The following list of topics describes the various types of security features described in this section. Some features are used for more than a single type of security or control, and so they appear twice in the list of topics below.

Permission to administer the switch is described in the following sections:

Protection from attacks directed at the switch CPU is described in the following sections:

Access control of end-users to the network through the switch is described in the following sections:

Protection from other network users is described in the following sections. These are attacks that pass through, but are not directed at, the switch.