Well, we certainly couldn't help but speak of countermeasures to enumeration as we were discussing
enumeration topics.
But I did want to take a moment and cover some more with you and give you a feel for how every single
protocol that an organization runs, how you're going to want to think about hardening that protocol,
especially if it is clear text based by default.
Let's talk about simple network management protocol.
You remember our discussion and you remember that version three of Simple Network Management Protocol
is going to be able to equip you with excellent varying levels of strength authentication and encryption.
So finally, simple network management protocol brings security to the equation.
That's version three.
So what do you do if you're stuck with version two C?
Well, you're going to encrypt it.
Yeah, absolutely.
You're going to send it over IP tunnels, for example.
Notice I didn't mention version one there, because if you're running version one, my goodness, get
out of the bunker.
And you know, my gosh, that is I mean, I have not encountered version one in the wild in a long,
long time.
Another thing to consider is ripping out all the agents, all the methods, no management tools for
simple network management protocol should exist in your environment except for where they are absolutely
required.
Yeah, absolutely.
Get rid of all of the traces of simple network management protocol from a client perspective, from
a workstation perspective, from a server perspective, get rid of it where it's not needed.
This is something that I can tell you for every single service we mention in this course.