Before You Start

Before beginning the process of hardening a Makito X Series device, make sure you have the following:

a trusted computer from which to issue hardening commands to the device,
an Ethernet or serial cable (available on some encoder models) to establish the trusted-computer-to-device connection,

Note

Some devices have a serial port, while others do not. See the associated installation or quick start guide.
password policy criteria, including minimum password length, minimum number of uppercase/digits/symbols, and expiration period (in days),
session policy criteria, including the period of inactivity (in minutes) after which an administrative user should be automatically logged out,
account policy criteria, including the period of inactivity (in days) after which an account should automatically be disabled,
an organization cryptographic policy, if any; users can either consult the compliance profile to find one that matches, or can define a custom profile,
a username and password chosen for the initial Administrator account,
an X.509 certificate (preferred); as an alternative, a self-signed, self-generated certificate can be used for the hardening procedure,
an Ethernet cable to establish a network connection,
a static IP address, network mask, and gateway address for the device, or a DHCP server IP address,
an NTP server IP address and time zone,
a host name for the device,
a domain name and DNS server address, if any, and
an audit (syslog) server address and its root CA certificate.