The configuration in the LANCOM is protected against “brute force attacks“ by barring logins. A brute-force attack is the attempt by an unauthorized person to crack a password to gain access to a network, a computer or another device. To achieve this, a computer can, for example, go through all the possible combinations of letters and numbers until the right password is found.
As a measure of protection against such attacks, the maximum allowed number of unsuccessful attempts to login can be set. If this limit is reached, access will be barred for a certain length of time.
If barring is activated on one port all other ports are automatically barred too.
The following entries are available in the configuration tools to configure login barring:
- Lock configuration after (Login-errors)
- Lock configuration for (Lock-minutes)
LANconfig: Management / Admin
WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / Config