Chapter 13 Authentication and Access Control

Question 1

This is the first line of defense went it comes to securing access to your resources on an network. p 432

Answer 1

Security Filtering

Question 2

Security filtering main 2 purposes is to do what. p 432

Answer 2

Ensure proper authentication and to make data being transported is secure.

Question 3

What are some ways you can security filter in a network? p 432-433

Answer 3

Access Control List and Port filtering

Question 4

Where does ACL typically reside? p 432

Answer 4

On the router

Question 5

How do ACL work? p 432

Answer 5

By determining which routes are allowed to route through the router based on the requesting devices’s source or destination IP address.

Question 6

T/F When configuring ACLs it is good to include “deny any addresses from any local host address (127.0.0.0/8)”. p 433

Answer 6

True

Question 7

T/F ACLs can be port filter based as well as IP addresses? p 433

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Successful firewall management involves being aware of and allowing only the ports to do what? p 433

Answer 8

Port just to keep things running no more no less than necessary.

Question 9

What is the method of tunneling in networks? p 434

Answer 9

tunneling encapsulates one protocol within another to ensure that a transmission is secure.

Question 10

T/F VPNs are not very secure. p 434

Answer 10

False .