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ISDS 418 Final ExamNode - correct answer ✔✔A single, conceptual computing device connected to the network
Host - correct answer ✔✔The actual physical computing device involved in a node
Link - correct answer ✔✔A connection between two hosts
What characteristics make networks vulnerable to attack? - correct answer ✔✔- Anonymity
- Many points of attack
- Resource and workload sharing
- System complexity
- Unknown boundary
Port scanner - correct answer ✔✔a software program that is designed to examine one or more IP
addresses and record which ports are open and which known vulnerabilities are present
Who uses a port scanner? - correct answer ✔✔- A network administrator or security analyst can use a
port scanner to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a network
- An attacker can also use a port scanner to assess how or at which point to attack a network
- High-quality port scanners are freely available to both white-hats and black-hats alike!
,segmented network architecture - correct answer ✔✔
How is segmented network more secure? - correct answer ✔✔- One way of controlling threats from port
scanners is to implement a segmented network architecture
- In a segmented network, many hosts belong to protected sub-networks that are not directly visible to
the outside world
What is a firewall? - correct answer ✔✔- A firewall is a device (hardware, software, or both) that is
designed to:
- Prevent unauthorized outside users from accessing a network or workstation
- Prevent inside users from transmitting sensitive information or accessing unsecured resources
How does a firewall work? - correct answer ✔✔- A firewall protects a local network (or sub-network)
from the outside global network
- Firewalls work by inspecting each inbound or outbound packet and determining whether it should be
blocked or allowed to pass through
- Firewalls keep "bad things" out, but can also be used to keep sensitive data in
What are the two main default firewall security policies? - correct answer ✔✔1. Default permit:
- Anything that is not expressly prohibited is allowed
2. Default deny:
- Anything that is not expressly allowed is denied
packet filtering gateways - correct answer ✔✔- Also known as a screening router, a type of firewall that
regulates network boundary access by:
- Examining the source and/or destination IP address for each packet
- Examining the type of transport protocol for each packet (e.g., HTTP, FTP, telnet, etc.) -- This is called
Port filtering
, - Packets that are not acceptable in light of the firewall's security policy are discarded
- Packet filtering gateways are the simplest and often most effective type of firewall
Stateful Inspection Firewall - correct answer ✔✔- considers the state or context of the packets that it
evaluates. It "remember" the network activities of hosts
- to identify hosts that represent a threat by accumulating evidence against them
- If the negative evidence against a host exceeds a threshold established by the firewall's security policy,
the host can be blocked
Application Proxy Gateways - correct answer ✔✔- also known as bastion host, a type of firewall that runs
pseudo-applications which mimic the proper behavior of real applications
- These pseudo-applications examine the contents of the packets traveling between applications inside
the network boundary and application users outside of the network boundary
- The application proxy gateway can filter out unacceptable protocol commands or other malformed
commands while they are in transit between an application and a user
- Command filtering is bidirectional
Circuit-Level Gateways - correct answer ✔✔- a type of firewall that enables one network to become a
virtual extension of another network
- Incoming / outgoing packets are examined to determine whether they are being sent to / received from
the target network
- If so, packets are decrypted or encrypted as necessary
- If not, packets are routed through the "normal" firewall
- Circuit-level gateways can be used to implement virtual private networks (VPNs)
What is network address translation? - correct answer ✔✔- hide the structure of an internal network
from the outside world
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