TEL104: Telecommunications 4

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Security Assignment

This assignment is based on chapter 14 in Network+ Guide to Networks.

1. A thorough examination of each aspect of a network to determine how it may be compromised is called a:
2. What causes more than half of all network security breaches by some estimates?
3. Briefly describe social engineering.
4. Why do human errors account for so many security breaches?
5. How are switches more secure that hubs?
6. A technician is installing a server OS on a PC. Identify one good practice to employ during the OS installation related to the servers credentials.
7. What is one of the best means of protecting the internal LAN from attacks originating from the internet?
8. Briefly describe the term security policy.
9. A security policy must address specific risks. How do you know and understand your risks?
10. Identify the response team member who notifies the lead technical support specialist.
11. A device that selectively filters or blocks traffic between networks is called a:
12. Identify the simplest form of a firewall.
13. Briefly describe the concept of punching a hole in the firewall.
14. One of the most important functions of a proxy server is:
15. How can a proxy server improve network performances for users that access external resources?
16. Identify one of the easiest and least expensive ways to guard against unauthorized network access.
17. Using an algorithm to scramble data into a format that can be read only reversing the algorithm is called:
18. What is a brute force attack?
19. AES offers the highest level of private key encryption security. But the biggest problem with all private key encryption schemes is:
20. Public key encryption is also as:
21. What else can PGP encrypt besides email?
22. How do you know if the web page you're on is using SSL public key encryption?
23. Identify the IPv6 native protocol that provides TCP/IP transmissions with encryption, authentication and key management services.
24. Briefly describe EAP.
25. What type of key service is used by Kerberos?

• Asymmetric Encryption
• Authentication Protocol
• Chap
• Ciphertext
• DoS Attack
• Digital Certificate
• Encryption
• Flashing
• Handshake
• Kerberos
• Key Management
• Mutual Authentication
• Port Forwarding
• Public Key Encryption