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CCNA Security Certification Exam Tutorial

Using SDM To Perform A Security Audit

By Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933

In the first two sections of this CCNA Security Exam tutorial, we used the Security Device Manager (SDM) to put a Cisco router into one-step lockdown.

The one-step lockdown is effective, but a pretty drastic step as well. You may want to take an incremental approach to securing your router.   The Security Audit feature in SDM gives us this option.

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To give the Security Audit feature something to audit, I've removed the lockdown configuration from the router.

Here's the Security Audit Wizard launch button:

SDM then presents us with a summary of the Security Audit feature.

After the audit runs, we're presented with a long list of potential security issues, along with passed or not passed.

The next screen gives us the option to fix the not passed issues on a per-issue basis, or to undo the passed issues.

Selecting Fix the Security problems presents us with a list of those perceived problems, and the option to fix them.  There is a Fix All option, but you can fix each individually as well.

After selecting Fix All and clicking Next, I am indeed "prompted for more information to fix certain settings", as the above window mentioned. I now have to set an enable password and a login banner.

After this screen, I was prompted to configure the IOS Firewall. We'll save that for a future tutorial.

Finally, we arrive at the Summary window.   Here's just a part of that window:

Clicking Finish delivers the config, and we're done!

We can also put the router into lockdown at the command line, and we'll take a look at that in a future installment of this CCNA Security Exam tutorial series!

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