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The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Call home services will routinely send data such as configuration and diagnostic information to the vendor for routine or emergency analysis and troubleshooting. There is a risk that transmission of sensitive data sent to unauthorized persons could result in data loss or downtime due to an attack.

ID
SV-221078r999687_rule
Version
CISC-RT-000080
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Disable the call home feature as shown below:

SW1(config)# callhome
SW1(config-callhome)# no enable 
SW1(config-callhome)# end