Network security relies heavily on passwords. Cisco routers use passwords to ensure that only "trusted" users can perform certain services. In this Daily Drill Down, Todd Lammle takes you on a journey ...

Most IT pros know that using Telnet to manage routers, switches, and firewalls is not exactly a security best practice. Instead, the accepted alternative to Telnet's lack of security is Secure Shell ...

Ivan Pepelnjak, chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications has a tip about one-time passwords on Cisco routers: “Cisco routers preconfigured for SDM have default username/password cisco/cisco ...

The bottom line is folks want to know how to configure their cisco routers to perform easy, yet granular, role-based access control. My guess is you IOS jockeys out there already know about privilege ...

Anyone know how to either reset a password or write/erase a Cisco 2500 series router w/o the password. I recently bought a 2505 on Ebay and a friend gave me a 2503 router to help with my CCNA pursuit.