How to Use Security Mode in Your Network

There are three aspects to setting the security mode on your device:

• FIPS security which determines the authentication and encryption algorithms supported on your system
• Security profile which provides for either normal (standard) operation or the setting of the government C2 security rating which, for a subset of security related commands, sets:
  • Non-standard command parameter default values
  • Non-standard command parameter range values
  • Access to the command
• Boot menu access which enables or disables access to the boot menu
  

  Note

  Super-user administrative privilege is required to access security mode configuration for FIPS, security profile, and boot menu access.