https://insinuator.net/tags/mop/ Recent content in Mop on Insinuator.net - Bold Statements Hugo en-us Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://insinuator.net/2015/08/cisco-and-the-maintenance-operation-protocol-mop/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://insinuator.net/2015/08/cisco-and-the-maintenance-operation-protocol-mop/ <p>Howdy,</p> <p>this is a short write up about the Maintenance Operation Protocol (MOP), an ancient remote management protocol from the <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet">DECnet</a> protocol suite. It’s old, rarely used and in most cases not needed at all. But as we stumbled across this protocol in some network assessments, it seems like a lot of network admins and other users don’t know about it. Even various hardening guides we’ve seen don’t mention MOP at all.</p>