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Hardening SSH on Mikrotik Routers

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Here are the commands you’ll need to harden SSH on your Mikrotik Routers. It looks like it still can use SSH-RSA, but it does get rid of most of the weaker crytpo algorithms.

/ip/ssh/set strong-crypto=yes allow-none-crypto=no always-allow-password-login=no host-key-size=4096

We’ll want to regenerate the Host Key now that the settings have been changed.

/ip/ssh/regenerate-host-key

It will prompt to enter [y/N] to confirm that you actually want to regenerate the host key. Hit y

After your done, you can use something like ssh-audit to check your equipment.
https://www.ssh-audit.com/

Further hardening information is available at the following link.
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Securing_Your_Router

Hardening SNMP on CentOS/RedHat/Fedora Etc.

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These steps should be similar across Red Hat type distros.

Before we proceed, lets stop SNMP

sudo systemctl stop snmpd

Disable SNMP Versions 1 and 2c

First we are going to disable SNMP v1 and v2c

You can manually edit the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file and comment out or delete every line starting with com2sec, group, access. Or you can run the following sed commands to change it for you.

sudo sed -i 's/^com2sec/# com2sec/g' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
sudo sed -i 's/^group/# group/g' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
sudo sed -i 's/^access/# access/g' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

https://serverfault.com/questions/376688/how-to-disable-version-1-and-version-2c-in-snmpd

Create SNMP Version 3 User

Follow the prompts to create a SNMP v3 user.

sudo net-snmp-create-v3-user -ro -a SHA -x AES

Start SNMP

sudo systemctl start snmpd

You should be good to go.

If you are running a firewall, you will need to allow an exception for SNMP, UDP port 161. You may also need to allow an SELinux exception. Check out the last portion of both these articles.

Setting up SNMP V3 on CentOS
Allowing SNMP Through Firewall
semanage Allow and Delete ports in CentOS