Details
Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password complexity is one factor of several that determines how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that needs to be tested before the password is compromised.
Typically, the account of last resort is a built-in account with full privileges to the network device. This account should only be used when the authentication mechanism is unreachable and configuration or maintenance actions must be taken.
Solution
Configure the Arista Multilayer Switch with a local infrequently used account to be used as an account of last resort with full access to the network 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 Arista.
References
- 800-53|CM-6b.
- CAT|I
- CCI|CCI-000366
- Group-ID|V-60815
- Rule-ID|SV-75271r1_rule
- STIG-ID|AMLS-NM-000100
- Vuln-ID|V-60815