Reply to post: Re: Disable TFTP services

Microsoft changes DHCP to 'Dammit! Hacked! Compromised! Pwned!' Big bunch of security fixes land for Windows

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Disable TFTP services

"TFTP (Trivial/Telephone File Transfer Protocol) is a very insecure protocol from the depths of time"

Yup. The _only_ secure way to use it is only to enable the service when you need it, only for long enough to do exactly what you need to do and doublecheck that nothing snuck in whilst you had it enabled.

(If anything needs it for booting then it needs to be in its OWN isolated VLAN along with the TFTP server, and the server end needs to be locked down enough so that access is read-only)

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