mis 341 quiz 6 hw answers

Tomás has created a set of firewall rules and has noticed that when there is traffic that matches a rule, the traffic allowed in one direction automatically allows traffic in the other direction for an active connection as long as there is at least one message going either direction within 10 minutes. What is the name of that type of firewall?

Stateful

Walden is reviewing the logs and sees a spike in overnight activity by one of the user accounts that he knows the employee left the organization over a month ago. Which of the following is most likely the cause of these logins?

Failure to properly deactivate accounts

Darren wants to implement a technology on the company's servers that will detect any intrusions as well as implement rules or other methods to immediately stop traffic that appears to be an intrusion. Which of the following is he looking to install?

NIPS

Gandy has been learning more about security within the cloud after hearing that it is a hot topic within the IT industry. He starts reading up on SHA-3 being used for hashing. Which of the following best describes SHA-3?

Cipher

Sasha has moved the only Linux server within VPC1 to the Linux-only VPC15. The remaining servers in VPC1 all run Windows Server. Which of the following should she do on the firewall for VPC1?

Disable port 22

Kareem has set up a new web server on the company's private cloud. He has installed the security certificate necessary so that the application can be accessed by HTTPS. He isn't overly familiar with how these certificates work, so he decides to read up on the details. He learns that there is a pair of keys used to encrypt and decrypt the initial communications. Which of the following is the key that does not get sent to the browser?

Private key

Stan wants to block any traffic that uses insecure protocols from entering his VPC. Which of the following might he use to accomplish that goal?

Firewall

Tyler wants to use a virtual firewall to filter the types of traffic that are allowed or not allowed into a virtual private cloud instance he has created on the cloud service provider his company uses. Which of the following can he use to accomplish this goal?

NACL

Theo wants to transfer some files to one of the Linux servers that he manages. Which of the following would ensure that the transmissions are secure while not relying on SSL/TLS for the encryption?

SFTP

Aria is looking to install a security appliance that is designed to detect applications and other resources running within the domain and monitor them according to her organization's policies. Which of the following would she want to implement?

CASB