Firewalls and Security Flashcards

1
Q

Enterprise management software designed to mediate access to cloud services by users across all types of devices.

A

CASB

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2
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Functions of CASB?

A

SSO

Scan for malware

Monitor and audit user and resource activity

mitigate data exfil.

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3
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A Layer 3 firewall technology that compares packet headers against ACLs to determine which network traffic to accept.

A

Packet Filtering

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4
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A type of firewall that does not preserve information about the connection between two hosts. Often used to describe packet-filtering firewalls.

A

Stateless

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5
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A technique used in firewalls to analyze packets down to the application layer rather than filtering packets only by header information, enabling the firewall to enforce tighter and more security.

A

Stateful

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6
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A Layer 7 firewall technology that inspects packets at the Application layer of the OSI model.

Cannot examine encrypted data packets unless configured with tls inspector

A

Application Aware Firewall

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7
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A standalone hardware device that performs only the function of a firewall, which is embedded into the appliance’s firmware.

can be deployed via routed layer 3 or bridged layer 2

A

Appliance Firewall

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8
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Application-Based Firewall

A software application running on a single host and designed to protect only that host.

A

Host-based firewall

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9
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Application-Based Firewall

Software designed to run on a server to protect a particular application such as a web server or SQL server.

A

Application firewall

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10
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Application-Based Firewall

A software-based firewall running on a network server OS, such as Windows or Linux, so that the server can function as a gateway or proxy for a network segment.

A

NOS Firewall

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11
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A server that redirects requests and responses for clients configured with the proxy address and port.

Must be configured

port 8080

A

non-transparent

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12
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A process in which a router takes requests from the Internet for a particular application (such as HTTP) and sends them to a designated host on the LAN.

A

Destination NAT/port forwarding

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13
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An appliance or proxy server that mediates client connections with the Internet by filtering spam and malware and enforcing access restrictions on types of sites visited, time spent, and bandwidth consumed.

A

SWG

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14
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Host or network firewall capable of parsing application layer protocol headers and data (such as HTTP or SMTP) so that sophisticated, content-sensitive ACLs can be developed.

A

NGFW

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15
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A firewall designed specifically to protect software running on web servers and their back-end databases from code injection and DoS attacks.

output can be written to log

A

WAF

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