CSC 240: Networking II

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Assignment 9

This assignment is based on Chapter 14.

1. Why do human errors account for so many security breaches?
2. Identify the response team member who notifies the lead technical support specialist.
3. Identify the simplest form of a firewall.
4. Briefly describe the concept of punching a hole in the firewall.
5. One of the most important functions of a proxy server is:
6. Identify one of the easiest and least expensive ways to guard against unauthorized network access.
7. Using an algorithm to scramble data into a format that can be read only by reversing the algorithm is called:
8. What is a brute force attack?
9. AES offers the highest level of private key encryption security. But the biggest problem with all private key encryption schemes is:
10. Public key encryption is also known as:
11. What else can PGP encrypt besides email?
12. How do you know if the web page you're on is using SSL public key encryption?
13. Identify the IPv6 native protocol that provides TCP/IP transmissions with encryption, authentication and key management services.
14. Briefly describe EAP.
15. What type of key service is used by Kerberos?

• Cipher Text
• Cracker/Hacker
• DOS Attack
• Encryption
• Key/Key Pair
• Port Forwarding
• Proxy Server
• Social Engineering

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