Secure Sensitive Data
SSD Management Channels
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SSD Management Channels
Devices can be managed over management channels such as telnet, SSH, and
web. SSD categories the channels into the following types based on their security
and/or protocols: secured, insecure, secure-XML-SNMP, and insecure-XML-SNMP.
The following describes whether SSD considers each management channel to be
secure or insecure. If it is insecure, the table indicates the parallel secure channel.
Security of Management Channels
Menu CLI and Password Recovery
The Menu CLI interface is only allowed to users if their read permissions are Both
or Plaintext Only. Other users are rejected. Sensitive data in the Menu CLI is always
displayed as plaintext.
Password recovery is currently activated from the boot menu and allows the user
to log on to the terminal without authentication. If SSD is supported, this option is
only permitted if the local passphrase is identical to the default passphrase. If a
device is configured with a user-defined passphrase, the user is unable to activate
password recovery.
Management Channels
Management Channel
SSD Management
Channel Type
Parallel Secured
Management Channel
GUI/HTTP Insecure
GUI/HTTPS
GUI/HTTPS Secure
XML/HTTP Insecure-XML-
SNMP
XML/HTTPS
XML/HTTPS Secure-XML-SNMP
TFTP Insecure
HTTP based file transfer
Insecure
HTTPS-based file transfer
HTTPS based file transfer
Secure