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
Default Value:
The default value depends on the platform, but generally is ciscoasa
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.