Conventional network security often focuses more on routers and blocking traffic from the outside. Switches are internal to the organization and designed to allow ease of connectivity, therefore only limited or no security measures are applied. Please see how to Fix “Error 1064: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request“, and Auto Logon Error “Username and password specified is not valid”. Here is “Disable SQL Auto Close: Auto Close is enabled for both ePO and ePO Events Databases“.
Therefore a HTTPS access is not entirely necessary. to disable web console in Cisco switches,
From CLI type
sh run | i http
When this returns
– IP http server
– IP http secure server
Next, type
no ip http serverno ip http secure server
Note: The site will no longer be accessible via HTTP (Thereby disabling Http and Https access
Note: this can be done also using the ACL but why choose a complicated route 🙂
See the link below for more ideas
– Disable the Web Interface
– Disable Web Console
– Configure a console port password
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