HP PS1810 SERIES, Management And Configuration Manual

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Security
Advanced Security
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Security
The HP PS1810 series switch software includes a robust set of built-in denial-of-service (DoS) and
storm-control protections, and allows configuring secure HTTP (HTTPS) management sessions.
Advanced Security
The HP PS1810 series switch software provides the following built-in security features:
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Storm Control— This feature protects against condition where incoming packets flood the
LAN, causing network performance degradation. The software includes Storm Control
protection for unicast, broadcast, and multicast traffic. The traffic is dropped if the rate of
incoming traffic on an interface increases beyond the threshold of 64K pps.
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Auto Denial-of-Service (DoS) protections— A DoS attack is an attempt to saturate the switch
with external communication requests to prevent the switch from performing efficiently, or at
all. You can enable Auto DoS protection that prevents common types of DoS attacks.
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The DoS feature does not generate any notifications (such as error messages, syslog messages, SNMP
traps) if a DoS attack occurs.
To display the Advanced Security page, click Security > Advanced Security in the navigation pane.
Figure 5-1. Advanced Security Page