Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Guide

Advanced security
The Advanced security page (Maintenance > Advanced security) is used to configure the VCS for use in
highly secure environments. This page can only be accessed if the Advanced Account Security option key
is installed.
You can configure the system for:
n Advanced account security mode
n FIPS140-2 cryptographic mode
Configuring advanced account security mode
Enabling advanced account security limits login access to remotely authenticated users using the web
interface only, and also restricts access to some system features. To indicate that the VCS is in advanced
account security mode, any text specified as the Classification banner message is displayed on every web
page.
Note that a system reboot is required for changes to the advanced account security mode to take effect.
Prerequisites
Before advanced account security mode can be enabled:
n the system must be configured to use remote account authentication for administrator accounts
n the Advanced Account Security option key must be installed
CAUTION: ensure that the remote directory service is working properly, as after advanced account security
is enabled you will not be able to log in to the VCS via the local admin account or as root.
You are also recommended to configure your system so that:
n SNMP is disabled
n the session time out period is set to a non-zero value
n HTTPS client certificate validation is enabled
n user account LDAP server configuration uses TLS encryption and has certificate revocation list (CRL)
checking set to All
n remote logging is disabled
n incident reporting is disabled
n any connection to an external manager uses HTTPS and has certificate checking enabled
Alarms are raised for any non-recommended configuration settings.
Enabling advanced account security
To enable advanced account security:
1. Go to Maintenance > Advanced security.
2. Enter a Classification banner.
The text entered here is displayed on every web page.
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Cisco TelePresence Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	TelePresence
Category	Server
Language	English