Ensure ‘Host Name’ is set

Details

Changes the device default hostname

Rationale:

The device hostname plays an important role in asset inventory and identification as a security requirement, but also in the public keys and certificate deployments as well as when correlating logs from different systems during an incident handling.

Solution

* Step 1: Acquire the enterprise naming convention to build the name_of_device
* Step 2: Run the following to configure the device hostname

HOSTNAME(CONFIG)#HOSTNAME <_name_of_device_>

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Cisco.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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