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.