1. What is the name of the document or documents that outline the procedures and policies that an organization should use in order to provide an adequate level of protection for important assets and information?

2. What type of network only has to worry about internal threats?

3. What type of network is very concerned with external threats?

4. Hacker tools are becoming much more sophisticated in what they can do on the network. What is also true about them?

5. Describe the basics of a reconnaissance attack.

Security and Monitoring with SNMP
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) provides the ability to proactivly monitor and secure your network.

SNMP has been around for a long time. It forms the basis of many management and security systems. In this video, guest instructor Mike Vasquez discusses this important protocol.

In this 4 minute Quick-Tip session from StormWind, Cisco Learning Network VIP instructor Anthony Sequeira walks you through helping to protect your network with just a single Cisco command. This easy how-to session is an example of the real-world, online HD certification training done at stormwind.com.

Here is another exam challenge for our ICND1 students. Examine the configuration shown and then answer the following questions.

hostname Router1
username JOHNS password cisco!
enable secret sanfran
enable password cisco
!
line con 0
no login
password cisco123
!
line vty 0 4
login local
transport input ssh

Question 1 When a user first logs into the device using the console port, what is the first password they must enter?

Here is an excellent student question to our Elite Mentors for CCENT.

This Cisco Video Blog examines the service password-encryption command and how it is used at the CLI.