How to disable web console in Cisco switches

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. 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 server
no 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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