Jake is a network administrator who needs to get reports from all the computer and network devices on his network. Jake wants to use SNMP but is afraid that won’t be secure since passwords and messages are in clear text. How can Jake gather network information in a secure manner?
A.
He can use SNMPv3
B.
Jake can use SNMPrev5
C.
He can use SecWMI
D.
Jake can use SecSNMP
Explanation:
SNMPv3 primarily added security and remote configuration enhancements to SNMP.
Security has been the biggest weakness of SNMP since the beginning. Authentication in SNMP Versions 1 and 2 amounts to nothing more than a password (community string) sent in clear text between a manager and agent.
Each SNMPv3 message contains security parameters which are encoded as an octet string
a