Below you can find 10 easy steps to make your HP Switch more secure
Step 1: Disable all unused ports. Step 2: Enable port-security for hosts. Step 3: Change Default passwords for users
Step 4: Configure SNTP server
time daylight-time-rule user-defined begin-date 03/25end-date 10/28 (depends of the your location) time zone 120 sntp unicast sntp 60 sntp server priority 1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx snap server priority 2 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Step 5: Allow specific monitoring server accessing your switch with SNMP
snmp-server host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx community "itsystemlab" trap-level all
Step 6: Disable non-encrypted protocols
no telnet-server no web-management
Step 7: Enable HTTPS
web-management ssl
Step 8: Send your logs to a syslog server
logging xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx login severity info
Step 9: Allow only specific hosts accessing your switch
ip authorized-managers xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.255 access manager
Step 10: Configure radius for authentication
