Hardening Aruba switches

Security is a growing concern in today's all-digital enterprise infrastructure. Upper level managers and IT administrators alike are held to higher accountability for the integrity and availability of their critical data and infrastructure. While host clients and servers are often the focus of security discussions, the security of network devices such as switches, routers, and wireless access points should not be ignored. Critical enterprise data traverses these devices, and properly securing them is paramount to a stable and secure infrastructure.

The purpose of this document is to provide security guidelines and best practices for management features and protocols provided by the ArubaOS-Switch software, and to present sample configurations to illustrate these best practices in action. This document is not intended to be a comprehensive reference guide to the features and commands listed; for additional information on configuration syntax and advanced features referred to in this document, obtain the latest software manual set from the HPE Networking Information Library.