About the White Paper:
Over the past years, Cisco Systems has been advocating best-practices guidelines for secure network configuration in several documents. The SAFE Blueprint [2] or the Best Practices for Catalyst 4500, 5000, and 6500 Series Switches [3] are examples of such documents. However, there has been no single document that collects all of the VLAN-related best practices for easier perusal by customers and field engineers. The purpose of this paper is to present in a comprehensive way all of the recommendations that Cisco engineers have accumulated to aid with the proper configuration of VLANs on Cisco switches. At the same time, through direct-to-the-point descriptions, the main results of the @stake testing will be explained and the security threats demystified. |
