Which security measures can protect the control plane of a Cisco router? (Choose two.)

Which security measures can protect the control plane of a Cisco router? (Choose two.)
A . CCPr
B . Parser views
C . Access control lists
D . Port security
E . CoPP

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Answer: A,E

Explanation:

Three Ways to Secure the Control Plane

+ Control plane policing (CoPP): You can configure this as a filter for any traffic destined to an IP address on the router itself.

+ Control plane protection (CPPr): This allows for a more detailed classification of traffic (more than CoPP) that is going to use the CPU for handling.

+ Routing protocol authentication

For example, you could decide and configure the router to believe that SSH is acceptable at 100 packets per second, syslog is acceptable at 200 packets per second, and so on. Traffic that exceeds the thresholds can be safely dropped if it is not from one of your specific management stations.

You can specify all those details in the policy.

You learn more about control plane security in Chapter 13, “Securing Routing Protocols and the Control Plane.”

Selective Packet Discard (SPD) provides the ability to Although not necessarily a security feature, prioritize certain types of packets (for example, routing protocol packets and Layer 2 keepalive messages, route processor [RP]). SPD provides priority of critical control plane traffic which are received by the over traffic that is less important or, worse yet, is being sent maliciously to starve the CPU of resources required for the RP.

Source: Cisco Official Certification Guide, Table 10-3 Three Ways to Secure the Control Plane ,

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