Over the years, Cisco has made improvements in storing passwords in the configuration file. As a result, securing Cisco IOS passwords is part of my checklist when hardening Cisco-based network infrastructure for clients. This article also appeared on Art of Network Engineering. History Cisco IOS has always had the option to store passwords in cleartext in the configuration file. As you and I both know, storing passwords in the configuration file is a big no-no. That said, …
Information Security
My CTF Experience
Our Information Security Office (ISO) hosted its first-ever capture the flag (CTF) event recently during the Cybersecurity & Privacy Festival. The CTF was open to all staff for a whole week from 10/19 - 10/23. It was engaging, educational, exhausting, frustrating, and infuriating. In this post, I want to share my CTF experience. I will also include some information about the challenges and my thought process. Bonus: I incorporated a mini-CTF. I encourage you to try it out! View …